Quotes by Longing The historic period in which we live is a period of reawakening to a commitment of higher values, a reawakening of individual purpose, and a reawakening of the longing to fulfill that purpose in life. Robert Fritz longing purpose commitment Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances. Robert Hass longing distance desire Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants. Robert Breault longing want life Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness; and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us. Robert Southey longing desire world For me, the experience of being in other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster. Rosecrans Baldwin longing culture I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic. Rufus Wainwright decrepit longing reverence .. . . would I were Rupert Brooke longing nostalgia The Heart is like a candle, Rumi lit longing heart There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them. Rumi longing lovers Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say. Rumi birdsong longing relief We are all the same ... all the same... Rumi longing way All language is a longing for home. Rumi longing language home 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. Saint Augustine longing prayer desire Tired of myself longing for what I have not Samuel Richardson longing tired How can one live without hope and longing? Sarah Moon without-hope longing .. now i begin to feel a longing so great, so sharp, i fear it will never be assuaged. i think it will mount, and mount, and make me mad, or kill me. Sarah Waters longing mad thinking 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. Saul Bellow longing who-we-are life-is Sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are Shauna Niequist longing where-you-are sometimes Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard. Sigmund Freud deprivation longing self At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world. Simone Weil longing heart world «23456789101112»