Quotes: Longing

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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

Laura Dern

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We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

Charles Lamb

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

Orison Swett Marden

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Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

Xun Zi

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And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my roots. And I thought I can’t be the only one to feel this way so I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore.

Sela Ward

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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Mohandas Gandhi

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People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

Polly Toynbee

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Milan Kundera

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My longing for truth was a single prayer.

Edith Stein

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The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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