Quotes by Longing On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is. Soren Kierkegaard longing solitude spirit Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar longing creation giving You are all that you are longing for. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar longing A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life. Stanley Kunitz buried longing I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing. Suketu Mehta longing citizens country But what are wishes, compared with longings? Sylvia Townsend Warner longing wish desire Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging. Tara Brach longing inspirational relationship Our greatest longing is to be intimate. Tara Brach longing intimate This longing to express and celebrate life is innate and quite beautiful. Tara Brach longing life-is beautiful But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them. Teresa of Avila longing waiting facts So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition. Theodore Roethke longing dying waiting All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure. Theodore Roethke longing vision lovers The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings. Therese of Lisieux longing country lying Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other. Tullian Tchividjian longing judgment grace In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true. Vincent Van Gogh artistic-life homesick longing Only longing can fill with more of itself. Virginia Woolf longing chaos I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing. Warsan Shire longing burning body Daring to dream what is deepest in our collective longings is what makes us most human and fully alive. Wendy Wright longing alive dream A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing. William A. Henry III longing poetic age Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers. William Ames end-of-the-world longing ends «23456789101112»