Longing Quotes

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life.

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.

I'm doing lots of interviews and stuff. I'm longing for the days of getting up, not having to put on makeup and do my hair and just going to the studio.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful.

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.

'Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally.

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again?

Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.

The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.

My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.