Longing Quotes - Page 25

• Could it be in longing we are most ourselves?

  Li-Young Lee

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• What a rare joy it is to linger in the lucid, transcendent worlds of Jennifer Maier's poems. In taut, precise language and lapidary images, Now, Now explores myriad pathways of connection, the ways desire, longing, and imaginative possibility brush up against the everyday, revealing a keen, fiercely compassionate intelligence-a sensibility so finely attuned and so clearly in love with the world that you would follow it almost anywhere.

  Rick Hilles

  Joy, Everyday, Desire

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• Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.

  Criss Jami

  Envy, Insecurity, Envied

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.33, Criss Jami

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• Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power to ease me. Maids are full of longing thoughtsthat breed a bloodless sickness, And that, oft I hear men say, is only cured by quickness.

  Thomas Campion

  Night, Men, Please Me

  1617 Fourth Book of Airs,'Fain Would I Wed'.

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• The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.

  Epes Sargent

  Bird, Remembrance, Soul

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 558, 1895.

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• The song of your soul is longing to be sung. Let your own essence express itself freely.

  Brandon Bays

  Song, Essence, Soul

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• All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake.

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Beauty, Beautiful, Sweet

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• What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts indeed, sometimes from no facts in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody's conscious control.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Interesting, Facts, Becoming

  Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter (2010). “The Light of Other Days”, p.206, Macmillan

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• I've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between a longing for home and the call for the open road. It's sort of like a tug between two families. I even love to miss my home.

  James Taylor

  Song, Home, Two

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I discovered that our clan included loads of cousins and uncles and aunts and animals of every shape. I was taught that chaos and competition were family values. And I learned that we all loved the sea. Somehow, the sea was about us-our past, our exuberance, our frailty, our longing.

  Timothy Shriver

  Cousin, Uncles, Past

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• Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow.

  George Eliot

  Men, Vegetables, Desire

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner, and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.168

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• When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Men, Secret

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3576, Delphi Classics

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• A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing into a sin against the high goal of making everyone feel good, of overcoming nature in the name of equality. ... Love of the beautiful may be the last and finest sacrifice to radical egalitarianism.

  Allan Bloom

  Beautiful, Sacrifice, Egalitarianism

  Allan David Bloom (1993). “Love and Friendship”

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• Longing alone is singer to the lute.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Singers

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.156, Everyman's Library

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• The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings. Where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether unpleasant struggle to put ourselves into a viable and devout relationship to our beloved and mistaken world.

  John Cheever

  Struggle, Men, Records

  National Book Award, September 1958.

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• Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don't often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means, you cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.

  Bram Stoker

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Bram Stoker (2006). “Dracula's Guest: & Other Stories”, p.122, Wordsworth Editions

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• There in the windy flood of morning Longing lifted its weight from me, Lost as a sob in the midst of cheering, Swept as a sea-bird out to sea.

  Sara Teasdale

  Morning, Cheer, Sea

  Sara Teasdale (1915). “Rivers to the Sea”

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• Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.

  Gautama Buddha

  Ignorance, Roots, Desire

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• It goes without saying that any persons may attempt to unite kindred spirits, but, whatever their hopes and longings, none have the right to impose their vision of unity upon the rest.

  Robert Nozick

  Unity, Vision, May

  Robert Nozick (2013). “Anarchy, State, and Utopia”, p.325, Basic Books

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• Through words we come to know the other person--and to be known. This knowing is at the heart of our deepest longings for intimacy and connection with others. How relationships unfold with the most important people in our lives depends on courage and clarity in finding voice.

  Harriet Lerner

  Heart, Voice, Knowing

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• People marry with a deep longing that their partner will tend to their wounds, not throw salt in them. Honor your partner's vulnerability.

  Harriet Lerner

  People, Honor, Salt

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• The soul contains few secrets and longings which cannot be sensibly discussed, analyzed, and polled. Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against and beyond his society, has become technically impossible. Logical and linguistic analysis demonstrate that the old metaphysical problems are illusory problems; the quest for the "meaning" of things can be reformulated as the quest for the meaning of words, and the established universe of discourse and behavior can provide perfectly adequate criteria for the answer.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Soul, Solitude, Secret

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.71, Beacon Press

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• The thing that attracts people to "The Sopranos" is the family element. It shows that America still has a longing for that traditional upbringing.

  Christine O'Donnell

  America, People, Elements

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• The cosmos exploded, actualizing its potentiality of space and time. The centers of power, like fragments of a bursting bomb, were hurled apart. But each one retained in itself, as a memory and a longing, the single point of the whole; and each mirrored in itself aspects of all the others throughout all the cosmical space and time.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Memories, Space, Cosmos

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, Courier Corporation

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• The bitter winds in February were sometimes called the First East Winds, but the longing for spring somehow made them seem more piercing.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Spring, Wind, East

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