Longing Quotes - Page 32

• When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't.

  Danica Patrick

  Girlfriend, Husband, Thinking

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• Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.

  Danica Patrick

  Memories, Gone, Chance

  "CUP: Thursday Charlotte Notebook", www.foxnews.com. May 24, 2012.

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• If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?

  Idries Shah

  Teacher, Convince Us, Different

  Idries Shah (1990). “Sufi Thought and Action”, p.5, Octagon Press Ltd

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• St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow experience. For one who during her undergraduate years was trying to escape an inexplicable weariness and despair, St. Andrews was an amulet against all manner of longing and loss, a year of gravely held but joyous remembrances.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Loss, Years, Remembrance

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.37, Pan Macmillan

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• Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home.

  Shari Arison

  Home, Elderly, Listening Ear

  "Coming to Do Good" by Shari Arison, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2011.

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• To the fuki plant, dandelions, and their kind that lie for long patiently under the fallen snow, comes the season of breezy spring. No sooner do they see the light of the world, stretching their longing heads out from the cracks in the snow, than they are instantly nipped off. For these plants isn't the sorrow as deep as that of the child's parents whose child had accidentally died? They say everything in the plant and tree kingdom attains Buddhahood. Then they, too, must have Buddha-nature.

  Kobayashi Issa

  Death, Children, Spring

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• It’s at the heart of everything we struggle with in life: longing to be valuable, to be accepted, to be prized, to be worth something to somebody, to have a life that matters, and God’s saying ‘You matter! I didn’t make anyone else like you. You’re not a reprint or a lithograph. You’re a one-of-a-kind, original creation of God.

  Louie Giglio

  Struggle, Heart, Matter

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• I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

  Philippa Gregory

  Rejection, Darkness, Despair

  Philippa Gregory (2004). “The Queen's Fool: A Novel”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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• With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.

  William Matthews

  Forever, Contentment, Strive

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• The longing for paradise is paradise itself.

  Khalil Gibran

  Paradise

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• The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, World, Stable

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant they are shattered, we realize how the greatest joys of life lie beyond the realm of reality. The instant they are shattered we are sick with longing for the days when they flamed within us. Our fate spends itself in this succession of hope and nostalgia.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Dream, Lying, Fate

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• I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Missing, Existential, States

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• Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.

  Robert Breault

  Life, Want, Desperate

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• A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kings, Moving, Heart

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• Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Passion, World, Fulfillment

  E.L. Doctorow (2011). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, p.34, Random House

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• Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.

  Billy Graham

  God, Vacuums, Pascal

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• Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite; but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Lying, Men, Vices

  "Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire: The Conquest of Solitude".

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• I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.

  Jack Dee

  Reading, Light, Torches

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• The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams.

  Alain de Botton

  Dream, Believe, Destiny

  Alain De Botton (1993). “On Love”, Grove/Atlantic

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• Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Religious, Exercise, People

  Nathanael Emmons (1842). “Autobiography. Memoir. The Christian ministry”, p.137

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• Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more.

  Meher Baba

  Simple, Illusion, Truth Is

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• The pangs of pain, of failure, in this mortal lot, are the birth-throes of transition to better things. We are separated for a time by the indifference of space and our blindness which particularizes and isolates us. But in us is a longing for unity.

  John Elof Boodin

  Pain, Space, Unity

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• Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only art adequately translates it into reality. But when we assuage our need for faith with an ideology we court disaster.

  Gerhard Richter

  Religious, Art, Believe

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• ... We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories as there are main characters, and each of these stories has to have multiple plots to keep it going - blood and bone, nerve and tissue, forgotten longing and unknown events.

  Walter Mosley

  Character, Writing, Blood

  Walter Mosley (2009). “This Year You Write Your Novel”, p.28, Hachette UK

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