Longing Quotes

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

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

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

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

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

The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

I'm so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do with our longing for meaning as well.

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.

I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

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

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