Quotes About Longing

If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great. JOHN PIPER9

There is woven inside each of us a desire for something more—a craving to be part of something bigger, greater, and more profound

Because we live for our happiness, happiness always eludes us—???because every fulfilled desire is followed by yet another desire.

Life is all about what we look to to fill us.

there is a deeper hunger within you than the physical hunger with which you are so familiar.

your body hungers to be filled, but your soul hungers even more.

The constant pursuit of material possessions/money status or sexual relationships, and so on, can be problematic.

I have a message for your daughter," said Cale. "I am bound to her with cables that not even God can break. One day, if there is a soft breeze on her cheek, it may be my breath; one night, if the cool wind plays with her hair, it may be my shadow passing by." And with this terrible threat he faced forward and the procession started once more. In less than a minute they were gone. In her shady room Arbell Swan-Neck stood white and cold as alabaster.

Lidské srdce je malé, touží ale po velkých v?cech. Nesta?í ani zasytit psa, ale celý sv?t pro n?j není dost velký.

This, this indeed is to be accursed, For if we mortals love, or if we sing, We count our joys not by what we have, But by what kept us from that perfect thing.

To-day my skies are bare and ashen, And bend on me without a beam. Since love is held the master-passion, Its loss must be the pain supreme

Cops and firemen are, without doubt, the horniest bastards on the planet.

Esta tarde ví llover, Vi gente correr, y no estabas tu.

Sin alma o corazón.

They weren't exactly here and now. They were busy turning to some future, but what is the future when you are always feeding it money? Doesn't it get tiring to give so much away to a world that you'll never get to touch and see?

Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.

Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.

I kept my heart alive in the desert years by turning it into a valentine, holding on to the hope of every romantic cliché like wedding cake under a pillow. If you have to wait as long as I did, you either become an awful sentimentalist or die of disillusion.

So I told myself I would give it up, even prayed at night for it to be taken away, not knowing that 'it' was love.

Lust and the English make no sense to me.

The problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter.

I suppose we'd been waiting for each other all our lives.

I'm talking about other kinds of hunger. Desire.

Does everybody always have to be on the prowl for love?