Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.
In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of being at once bound and free. The garden breeds a longing for the wild; the wild a homesickness for the garden.
The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.
Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God.
One of the greatest human longings is to be close to someone.
I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his kisses and mix tapes. During the year of elation and longing, he never mentioned that he had a girlfriend who lived across the street.
The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.
The longing to be holy makes us weep, and we trust tears since they are made of water and come from our body, a double blessing.
Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.
The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.
The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.
Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.
Sometimes, language is the sound of longing
But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.
Sometimes we let our thoughts of tomorrow take up too much of today. Daydreaming of the past and longing for the future may provide comfort but will not take the place of living in the present. This is the day of our opportunity, and we must grasp it
The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.
All that produces longing in the heart deprives the heart of freedom.
Tired of myself longing for what I have not