Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing.
My longing for you keeps me in this moment My passion gives me courage
Only longing can fill with more of itself.
My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody.
Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.
One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.
Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing?. . . The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.
Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.
only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
All that produces longing in the heart deprives the heart of freedom.
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.
It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality.
In Cuba we are building a socialist society and we could say we are on the verge of a communist society which is hard to achieve, very hard to achieve, but is a longing worth fighting for.
That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.
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.
Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.
Try claiming God's blessings instead of merely longing for them.
As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment; as long as ego is there, all these bind one.
He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is truly called one who is bound upstream.