Longing Quotes - Page 17

• She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

  Jean Rhys

  Would Be, Thirsty, Lost

  Jean Rhys (2001). “Wide Sargasso Sea”, Gardners Books

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• Endless longing; a face you'd known since childhood, since birth almost; a body that moved as though it were your own. These were things you never spoke of, things you never hoped for; things you could never admit to. Things you'd die for, and die of.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Childhood, Body, Faces

  Elizabeth Hand (2010). “Illyria”, p.34, Penguin

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• Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements.

  Derrick Bell

  Inspirational, Powerful, Names

  Derrick Bell (2010). “Ethical Ambition”, p.65, A&C Black

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• One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could stare at the stars for hours, their infinite number and depth pulling me into a part of myself that I ignored during the day.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Stars, Numbers, Depth

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.37, Scholastic Inc.

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• Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.

  Warren G. Bennis

  People, Soul, Dreamer

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.149, John Wiley & Sons

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• She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.

  Anna Godbersen

  New York, Real, Home

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• Celia, wait,” Marco says, standing but not moving closer to her. “You are breaking my heart. You told me once that I reminded you of your father. That you never wanted to suffer the way your mother did for him, but you are doing exactly that to me. You keep leaving me. You leave me longing for you again and again when I would give anything for you to stay, and it is killing me.” “It has to kill one of us,” Celia says quietly.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Mother, Father, Moving

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• But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine.

  David Levithan

  Plato, Ideas, Soul

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.83, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places in the wide landscape where she had lived, to all her sons roaming through the world, to all her dead lying under the earth.

  Sigrid Undset

  Lying, Heart, Son

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• He shifted over without comment, lifting the blankets, and I scrambled into the warm sheets beside him. He smelled like soap and sleep and bare skin. He smelled familiar. Not the deja vu familiar of Guy or Mel. Familiar like...the ache in your chest of homesickness, of longing for harbor after weeks of rough seas or craving a fire's warmth after snow--or wanting back something you should never have given away.

  Josh Lanyon

  Sleep, Sea, Fire

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• History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has got to be shaken. In a sense, nothing that was ever lost in Port William ever has been replaced. In another sense, nothing is ever lost, and we are compacted together forever, even by our failures, our regrets, and our longings.

  Wendell Berry

  Regret, Community, Forever

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• Sometimes, language is the sound of longing

  Simon Van Booy

  Sound, Language, Sometimes

  Simon Van Booy (2007). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, Turtle Point Pr

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• Down deep in every soul has a hidden longing, impulse, and
  ambition to do something fine and enduring...If you are willing,
  great things are possible to you.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Ambition, Soul, Fine

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• Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.

  Erwin McManus

  Dream, Promise, Portraits

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You”, p.22, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Our world is... longing to see people whose God is big and holy and frightening and gentle and tender... and ours; a God whose love frightens us into His strong and powerful arms where He longs to whisper those terrifying words, 'I love you.'

  Mike Yaconelli

  Strong, Powerful, Love You

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• Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.

  Erwin McManus

  Alive, Instinct, Deeper

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Mean, Science

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.

  Carson McCullers

  Lonely, Men, Quality

  Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.408, Library of America

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• Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce. In summer, we work hard to make a tidy garden, bordered by pansies with rows or clumps of columbine, petunias, bleeding hearts. Then we find ourselves longing for the forest, where everything has the appearance of disorder; yet we feel peaceful there.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Summer, Falling In Love, Fun

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• Every gay reader understands the secret self that is full and wonderful and has longing and tenderness and a desire for connection to other people. I think that arguments against gay marriage are just ridiculous! Who cares? People want to get married for the same reason I wanted to get married. They want to do it in front of their friends and family

  Lynda Carter

  Gay, Thinking, Self

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• I'm doing lots of interviews and stuff. I'm longing for the days of getting up, not having to put on makeup and do my hair and just going to the studio.

  Stevie Nicks

  Makeup, Hair, Stuff

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• My love is as a fever, longing still
  For that which longer nurseth the disease,
  Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
  Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please.
  My reason, the physician to my love,
  Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,
  Hath left me, and I desperate now approve
  Desire is death, which physic did except.

  William Shakespeare

  Famous Love, Love Is, Desire

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 147.

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• What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!

  Albert Einstein

  Lonely, Science, Years

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.234, Princeton University Press

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• If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask yourself whether this situation is truly God given. Because where God wants you to be, God holds you safe and gives you peace, even when there is pain. To live a disciplined life is to live in such a way that you want only to be where God is with you. The more deeply you live your spiritual life, the easier it will be to discern the difference between living with God and living without God, and the easier it will be to move away from the places where God is no longer with you.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Pain, Loneliness

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• Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on political solutions, create new villains, turn our backs on Jesus, and blame a thousand tyrannies- but we never come to terms with the source of the problem deep within the heart and inclination of every human being.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Jesus, Passion, Heart

  Ravi Zacharias (2010). “Has Christianity Failed You?”, p.41, Zondervan

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