Quotes About Longing

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.

I've got a great life that I really enjoy. But there is something chewing at me inside: that adrenaline rush from football, I miss that.

Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.

Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

Many children work hard to please their parents, but what I truly longed for was good times that were about us, not about me. That is the real hole the Dodgers filled in my life.

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem

Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."

Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.

I can make beleive I have everything, but I can't pretend that I don't see that without you in my life is complete.

I don't know what else to tell you. I often think how different my life would have been - how much happier - if you'd been a part of it. One day.

Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired.

I know it's wrong - God, it's all kinds of wrong - but I just want to lie down with you and wake up with you, just once, just once ever in my life.

I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!

My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

You're meant to have whatever your heart desires. Whatever your heart wants that much is already a part of you.

You experience your soul each time you sense yourself as more than a mind and body, your life as meaningful, or you feel that you have gifts to give and you long to give them.

If I never meet you In this life Let me feel the lack A glance from your eyes Then my life Will be yours

I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life. What I think they are really expressing is a desire for a life with less pressure.

Does not all the blood within me Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee, As the springs to meet the sunshine.

It's [Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You"] been one of my favorite songs for my entire life.

The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.