Words matter. These are the best Longing Quotes from famous people such as Allan Bloom, Khalil Gibran, Jon Crosby, Bodhidharma, David Archuleta, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The longing for Europe has been all but extinguished in the young.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn’t actually have to do with death. I’m singing about what I know, and it’s a song about longing for somebody who’s disappeared in your life.
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
I really wanna do a Spanish album. I have that Latin culture background. It’s a part of me. I’m not the best Spanish speaker, but I have a longing to connect with that. I just think how supportive the Latin community has been, even during ‘Idol.’ I’d like to give back with something like that.
I’ve never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It’s a feeling of longing, once again.
In college, my wife did a study abroad in Nairobi, and I did the exact same program in Cape Town. For me, the experience of being in that other culture really set up a longing. When I’m traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster.
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.
That first replica of the Globe that I saw at the Chicago World’s Fair was a suspect thing, made of plywood and papier-mache. But I kept seeing other replicas at other fairs in the ’30s, so I developed a longing to see London.
The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
People are longing for tribe and community.
Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I’ve already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.
The longing for Europe has been all but extinguished in the young.
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
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.
The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.
During teenager times, the feelings of longing is perhaps at its most strong and profound because everything feels multiplied by ten.
There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That’s what I intend to do and what I’m longing for.
All I can say is sometimes home gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can’t leave you, and there’s always that longing.
Trump’s campaign slogan resonates strongly with a large population of Americans. ‘Make America Great Again’ portrays a nostalgia for what America once was, and a longing desire to return to that time. Millennials unfortunately don’t know first-hand that time which Trump is talking about.
That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.
There’s no shame in longing for peace.
Irvine is such a safe, stable, planned community, and I’m a person who has a lot of inner longing for drama and romance. So I think in some way the structure of Irvine made me more creative because I had these boundaries, and I thought outside them.
I think, as you’re growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you’re an adult. You’re ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don’t feel things more as we get older.
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.
People are longing for tribe and community.
My first novel was called ‘Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald,’ about the difficulties of graduating from college, the longing and mourning you feel when all your promise seems to float away.
Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller – some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I’ve met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
Every Sri Lankan, and almost every visitor to Sri Lanka, carries a longing for the place in some small form – hiraeth, the Welsh call it – wherever they go and whatever their background. It binds them however much the war and politics might try to divide them.
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.
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.
‘Free’ is more of that ‘familiarity breeds contempt’ kind of thing. It’s about saying ‘Wait, I’m longing for something more than I have and I don’t know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.’ It has nothing to do with what I’m going through, personally.
What is remarkable about Joy Division is the way they are bereft of two of the mainstays of most other rock and pop: longing and supplication.
The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
If some longing goes unmet, don’t be astonished. We call that Life.
As a Jew, even if you were not born in Poland, the very name, Poland, gives rise to a shuddering in your body and a longing in your heart. This country was the breeding ground for the soul of the Jewish nation, and unfortunately, also grounds to the largest Jewish cemetery.
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
I would be in Italy working on a film, longing for something simple – like, God, I would just kill to be sitting at a barbecue having a beer right now.
America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.
It’s been a continuity right from the beginning – that longing to weave together perceptions, to affirm the richness of us as human beings both as performers and audience members.
When you have that deep kind of hunger that is part longing, what’s better to eat than the best apple pie? Or the best potato salad and guacamole? Or the best deviled eggs and crab cakes and white chocolate raspberry pie?
America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
I was thrilled when I heard about the Time’s Up campaign’s legal defense fund for women who’ve experienced harassment and sexism. I’d been longing for this movement to extend beyond Hollywood.
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.
Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings – all the human actions we think of as essential to a character – had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.
I have a longing for fiction – to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.
Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.
