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Longing Quotes
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. - Alfred De Vigny Quotes
Happiness is the longing for repetition. - Milan Kundera Quotes
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. - Arianna Huffington Quotes
Im doing lots of interviews and stuff. Im longing for the days of getting up, not having to put on makeup and do my hair and just going to the studio. - Stevie Nicks Quotes
The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations. - Alva Myrdal Quotes
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. - Ben Kingsley Quotes
Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God. - Ramakrishna Quotes
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. - Karl Rahner Quotes
The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it. - Gail Godwin Quotes
Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again? - Arundhati Roy Quotes
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes
You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesnt actually have to do with death. Im singing about what I know, and its a song about longing for somebody whos disappeared in your life. - Jon Crosby Quotes
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. - Polly Toynbee Quotes
Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland. - Eduard Shevardnadze Quotes
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of ones weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. - Mohandas Gandhi Quotes
To put meaning in ones 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. - Edgar Lee Masters Quotes
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. - Julia Margaret Cameron Quotes
It is a political thriller. Its very action packed and its very exciting, but at the same time its a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. Theyre not separate, theyre completely dependent on one another. - Rachel Weisz Quotes
It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains. - Pierre Loti Quotes
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 cant be the only one to feel this way so I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore. - Sela Ward Quotes
Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself. - Bryant H Mcgill Quotes
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. Ive met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased. - Wayne Coyne Quotes
The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment. - Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself. - Charles Lamb Quotes
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Lifes longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. - Kahlil Gibran Quotes
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. - John Le Carre Quotes
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. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart. - Josiah Royce Quotes
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. - George Eliot Quotes
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. - Oscar Wilde Quotes
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