Longing Quotations | Page 3

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death.

My love is as a fever, longing still.

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.

Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings. And why not? Because we are practically the ultimate paradox: the finite made for the infinite.

Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.

Offices are as acceptable here as elsewhere, and whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them, a rottenness begins in his conduct

Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

It must be so - Plato, thou reason'st well! -/ Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, / This longing after immortality?

The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.

The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.

What you are longing for is longing for you.

Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one.

That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things, To have no home in the present. And these are wishes: gentle dialogues Of the poor hours with eternity.

Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom!

The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood.

The life of a flower is longing and fulfilment. A tear and a smile.

My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called.

The longing for paradise is paradise itself.

And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground

There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life.

We are all the same ... all the same... longing to find our way back ... back to the One ... back to the Only One!

There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.

The Heart is like a candle, longing to be lit!

Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

All language is a longing for home.

On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.

In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.

only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.