Longing Quotes

I keep you in my heart, like a dream unfulfilled. Like an incomplete wish. Like something I can crave but never have. Ever since the beginning of time, what has love been anyway? if not longing or heartbreak?

On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams and our great longing for times that have passed.

My longing for intimacy does not abandon the love I’ve built for myself.

Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.

The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.

How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not – have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.

I long to be out in the sun with no work to be done.

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body

…all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.