Quotes About Longing

The more desire ripens and becomes mature, the more it begins to hurt obsession. It will hurt until it is fulfilled.

The most terrible thing in love is that you are not given during life to know who your soulmate really is. And even if you find it, you can't be sure that your love of all your eternity will fall in love with you, because it can simply refuse you because of some trifle.

Every wish is an unfulfilled desire.

Give little thought to food. For, the stomach is never satisfied and it can never be satisfied for a lifetime.

My enemies pretend to hate me in the public. But I know they are secretly longing to be in my place and to whisper in private how much they've admired my works.

Single people yearn to see their loved ones, while those who are married crave for time alone.

The cravings of the human cannot be fulfilled, nor satisfied at one instance.

The heart is the throne of God and the heart is the mother of all the desires!

The more you wish, the more you increase your level of expectation.

The only known promised land is that of two lovers who are deeply longing for each other.

Those who have freedom wish to remain where they are and those who lack it are constantly seeking for it nonstop.

You are living for the sake of love and your life is not free from wanting more love or pleasure to yourself.

You can desire something only if you wish to possess it in the end. Therefore, love is a possession!

Three things I have longed to see," murmured Miss Cynthia, pointedly. "The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

Song of Longing Will you come to me now Thee white moon shines on the cornfields Evening falls among the melon rows The orange sun sets on the mountains The river runs sparkling on blue stones And the long reeds bend and sway I will welcome you with sweetgrass and sage Will you come to me now I sing in my heart of your coming I sing in my soul of your coming

Jesus, to be sure, often spent long times alone in prayer. But he was also deeply at home where there was a party, a kingdom party, a celebration of the fact that God was at last taking charge.

But the voice goes on, calling us, beckoning us, luring us to think that there might be such a thing as justice, as the world being put to rights, even though we find it so elusive. We're like moths trying to fly to the moon. We all know there's something called justice, but we can't quite get to it.

It isn't that God basically wants to condemn and then finds a way to rescue some from that disaster. It is that God longs to bless, to bless lavishly, and so to rescue and bless those in danger of tragedy—and therefore must curse everything that thwarts and destroys the blessing of his world and his people.

either you obey rules imposed from the outside, or you discover the deepest longings of your own heart and try to go with them. Most of us wobble about between the two, obeying at least some of the rules either because we think God wants us to or because of social convention, but reverting to pursuing our own dreams, our own fulfillment, when given the chance.

God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.

But you, you've always been the rain, the wind, inside my mind. I taste you when I sleep, when I wake, when I breathe.

When you want something so bad it hurts," he said quietly, "and you bury it, bury it so deep that you convince yourself it no longer matters . . . and someone tells you you can have it, it's terrifying. What if you take the chance and you're wrong? What if you let yourself feel the loss and it's this huge pain and you can't put it back in the box?

Why are you sad, Dorian?" He couldn't lie to her. "The leopard wants you to see it.

Death holds no allure for me, Elena." The power of him cut against his skin, a cold white fire. "Not when I have yet to sate my hunger for you.