Quotes and Sayings About Longing
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...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.
-- Alan Hollinghurst -
Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.
-- Albert Einstein -
It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein -
It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all.
-- Anders Petersen -
Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
-- Anna Freud -
Even a painful longing is some form of presence.
-- Anna Kamienska -
Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
-- Anna Sui -
Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
-- Anselm Kiefer -
I don't have a vast longing for the stage.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
-- Ayn Rand -
as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves
-- Bell Hooks -
That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.
-- Ben Kingsley -
Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.
-- Billy Graham -
People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.
-- Bodhidharma -
Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.
-- Carl Jung -
The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.
-- Cornelia Funke -
I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.
-- Criss Jami -
Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.
-- Criss Jami -
We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing of the human soul.
-- Dave Earley -
Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.
-- David Brainerd -
People are better inside in your head. When you're longing for them, they're perfect.
-- Donal Ryan -
Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.
-- E. L. Doctorow -
For the body at best Is a bundle of aches, Longing for rest; It cries when it wakes.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay -
Longing alone is singer to the lute.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
