Longing Quotes - Page 9

• What is vanity but the longing to survive?

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Vanity

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.59, Princeton University Press

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• You're hungry for the infinite and the infinite is hungry for you.

  Rob Brezsny

  Divinity, Infinite, Hungry

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.69, Frog Books

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• Writing is a voice that calls us from dreams, that peeks out of the corner of our eyes when we think no one is looking, the longing that breaks our hearts even when we think we should be happiest, and to which we cannot give a name.

  Judy Collins

  Dream, Heart, Eye

  Judy Collins (2005). “Morning, Noon, and Night: Living the Creative Life”, p.30, Penguin

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• The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him [or her]-on the one hand, the common human longing for happiness, satisfaction and security in life, and on the other a ruthless passion for creation which may go so far as to override every personal desire ... There are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly for the divine gift of creative fire.

  Carl Jung

  War, Passion, Artist

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• I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather, the desire for something unknown, animate desire for something that lies beyond ourselves, a longing for something we know is missing in us.

  Bernadette Roberts

  Lying, Missing, Desire

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• By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it go. Perhaps it was nothing more than the two doughnuts expanding in her stomach full of milk, but Amy felt a heaviness begin, a familiar turning of some inward tide. As they drove over the bridge the sun seemed to move from a cheerful daytime yellow to an early-evening gold; painful how the gold light hit the riverbanks, rich and sorrowful, drawing from Amy some longing, a craving for joy.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Moving, Two, Yellow

  Elizabeth Strout (2003). “Amy and Isabelle: A Novel”, p.56, Vintage

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• Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Men, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1803, Manonmani Publishers

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• There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Moments, Yearning

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 15, 1895.

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• My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal willingness to receive whatever God assigns, and a determination to practice the sacrificial principle of Isaiah 58:10-11. Life becomes not only far simpler, but surprisingly joyful and free.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Determination, Self, Practice

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• Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Buddhism, Insecure, People

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• I felt very awkward and out of place in school. Not popular, not attractive, not special in any way and I was longing for love and approval from someone.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Self Esteem, School, Awkward

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• The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other.

  Roland Barthes

  Dream, Unions, Gestures

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• My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful.

  Treat Williams

  Children, Powerful, Three

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• From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the ruin of discrimination; and from the ruin of discrimination, a man perishes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Memories, Confused, Men

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• Normal men retain their childish longing for a woman to mother them. At adolescence a new desire is added. They want a girl to allure them. When you put these two together, you have the typical male yearning that Wonder Woman satisfies.

  William Moulton Marston

  Girl, Mother, Men

  "Men Of Tomorrow". Book by Gerard Jones, October 12, 2004.

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• The wish to be super strong is a healthy wish, a vital compelling, power-producing desire. The more the Superman-Wonder Woman picture stories build up this inner compulsion by stimulating the child's natural longing to battle and overcome obstacles, particularly evil ones, the better chance your child has for self-advancement in the world.

  William Moulton Marston

  Strong, Children, Self

  "Why 100,000,000 Americans Read Comics". The American Scholar, Volume 13, No. 1 (p. 40), 1943.

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• I am not even six feet tall. Yet I am praying to the Absolute Supreme to reach His infinite Height, which is far beyond even my imagination's flight. For me to long to grow into that Height - is this not a miracle? I am mortal. My thoughts, my deeds, my experiences - everything that I have and everything that I am - represent mortality. Yet despite everything that I have and everything that I am, I am longing for Immortality. Is this not a miracle?

  Sri Chinmoy

  Feet, Imagination, Long

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• Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.

  John of the Cross

  Hurt, Order, Needs

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• The gospel of a God found in broken flesh, humility, and measureless charity has defeated all the old lies, rendered the ancient order visibly insufficient and even slightly absurd, and instilled in us a longing for transcendent love so deep that-if once yielded to-it will never grant us rest anywhere but in Christ.

  David Bentley Hart

  Lying, Humility, Order

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• Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep crying out, and if your love perseveres, your cry will be heard without fail.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Love Is, Voice

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• The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light.
  But it is night that raises them to the stars.

  Khalil Gibran

  Stars, Night, Light

  Khalil Gibran (2017). “The garden of the prophet”, p.23, Lulu.com

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• Walking I am unbound, and find that precious unity of life and imagination, that silent outgoing self, which is so easy to loose, but which a high moments seems to start up again from the deepest rhythms of my own body. How often have I had this longing for an infinite walk - of going unimpeded, until the movement of my body as I walk fell into the flight of streets under my feet - until I in my body and the world in its skin of earth were blended into a single act of knowing.

  Alfred Kazin

  Journey, Feet, Hiking

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• Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration or sophistry. For it strikes him with two terrible weapons, Intuition and Beauty, and at the single root in him of all his energies... Art and Poetry awaken the dreams of man, and his longings, and reveal to him some of the abysses he has in himself.

  Jacques Maritain

  Dream, Art, Men

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• As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment; as long as ego is there, all these bind one.

  Rajneesh

  Passion, Love Is, Attachment

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• This is why Caliban was a punishment. I realize it now - it's a beautiful, perfect world of nothingness. No connection, no longing, no . . . love. A world we're trapped in until we're needed here, a world we're condemned to while everyone we might care about forgets us.

  Jackson Pearce

  Beautiful, Punishment, Perfect

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