(208 quotes found)
“A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Happiness is the longing for repetition.”
Milan Kundera
“And a nameless longing filled her breast, - A wish, that she hardly dared to own, For something better than she had known”
John Greenleaf Whittier
“Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.”
Kahlil Gibran
“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.”
Saul Bellow
“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.”
George Eliot
“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.”
Mohandas Gandhi
“We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been — a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power. Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when”
Starhawk
“Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf”
Oscar Wilde
