A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.
Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that’s why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can’t share.
Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
My definition of the blues is the naked cry of the human heart longing to be in union with God.
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.
Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be so much more thrilling when you’re actively miserable.
You’re always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.
People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it’s my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.
Just like Lara Jean in my book ‘To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,’ I used to write letters to boys I was in love with – letters full of emotion and longing and also recrimination – but they were for my eyes only.
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
Longing, for everyone, is always there, isn’t it? More intense at some times than others. You get closer to less longing – an odd metaphoric phrasing, I realize – then, you are further and longing more than ever again.
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
If I had any advice to give to anybody, it would be record your parents talking so that, when you’re longing to hear that voice, you can play the tape. But for me, it’s a little often. You don’t always need to be reminded that he isn’t here anymore.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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.
There’s no shame in longing for peace.
Things have changed for the worse. That’s why former eastern bloc countries are electing communists again. We are missing them and longing for the times we cursed before.
I don’t have any huge desire to show you all that I’m not tough and strong, that I’m all feminine and soft. That’s not a huge longing that I have because I know who I am.
Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
McNamara’s plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion.
My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.
The longing to produce great inspirations didn’t produce anything but more longing.
I think everyone goes through a phase of longing to be little – I always wanted to be a girl who could sit on a man’s lap, but that is just not going to happen.
Happiness is the longing for repetition.
Some books are like an hors d’oeuvre – light, tasty and leaving you longing for the main course which is never going to come – and some are like Christmas lunch immediately after a cooked breakfast.
I have this insane and unabated longing for San Francisco. I come up there every chance that I get.
I have wandered over Europe, have rambled to Iceland, climbed the Alps, been for some years lodged among the marshes of Essex – yet nothing that I have seen has quenched in me the longing after the fresh air, and love of the wild scenery, of Dartmoor.
This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China’s relationship with the outside world.
My work is mostly about longing, human relationships, science and children – and a little bit about ghosts and reincarnation.
Some books are like an hors d’oeuvre – light, tasty and leaving you longing for the main course which is never going to come – and some are like Christmas lunch immediately after a cooked breakfast.
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
In the case of ‘News Radio,’ I loved that show. I loved the actors and the producers, but I was longing very much for something more to sink my teeth into me. I think it was an incredibly smart show, but I found myself on the peripheral of a lot of it.
Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.
Believe me, I’m not longing for the days when I was going to become a lawyer. Especially come tax time.
In these times – where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance – what has become our longing to change is really the unconscious desire to control not just the shape of our bodies (according to prevailing values) but to dominate our environment as well, regardless of the cost.
Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
I have always had a longing to talk about this Nazi period because my parents’ generation wouldn’t talk about it after the war at all. From an actor’s point of view, it’s amazing to play in one year the Nazi Albert Speer and Claus von Stauffenberg.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it’s still our deepest longing – but it’s now also our deepest fear.
To me, TV relationships work at their best when there is a deep longing and feelings and interest and sexual attraction that is unrequitable.
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.
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.
To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
You’re always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.
I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his kisses and mix tapes. During the year of elation and longing, he never mentioned that he had a girlfriend who lived across the street.
I’ve felt since I was a kid this desperate longing to be closer to – I don’t know what. Just to something bigger, to be in conversation with the mystery of everything.
Today we’re just growing and consuming, and I think maybe there’s a sadness in that. People are longing for a time when there was a black and white and good and bad.
