Quotes by Longing In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of being at once bound and free. The garden breeds a longing for the wild; the wild a homesickness for the garden. Dorothy Richardson longing shadow garden Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce. E. L. Doctorow longing passion world Images break with a small ping, their destruction is as wonderful as their being, they are essentially instruments of torture exploding through the individual's calloused capacity to feel undifferentiated emotions full of longing and dissatisfaction and monumentality. E. L. Doctorow longing emotion wonderful My longing for truth was a single prayer. Edith Stein longing catholic prayer Longing alone is singer to the lute. Edna St. Vincent Millay longing singers For the body at best Edna St. Vincent Millay longing cry body I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing. Eliza Griswold longing suffering thinking I'm afraid many women do choose the wedding over the marriage. It seems a steep price to pay, but it comes from a place of deep, sad longing to be loved and to have it proven that you are of value. Elizabeth Gilbert steep longing pay To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position. Elizabeth Gilbert longing shows clever Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment. Ellen Glasgow longing law memories Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly Elmer Diktonius longing bird longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness Elizabeth Gilbert longing madness kind Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground Emily Dickinson seeds longing All human eyes have longing in them. Ernesto Cardenal longing eye humans Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive. Erwin McManus longing instinct alive It's not so difficult to acknowledge that we lack wisdom. When we pray and seek God's wisdom with a longing for a deeper fullness of the life of Christ, then we will always find something to pursue. Esther Smith longing daily-life praying Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the one you are with; you are not liking the person you have become. Esther Perel longing existential sometimes Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God. Evelyn Underhill longing passionate soul Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me! Fernando Pessoa book-of-disquiet longing might I have learned that my quenchless longing for life is, after all, unconsciously, a secret, unutterable yearning after God; for how can you conceive of life apart from Him? Frank W. Boreham longing secret life-is «1234567891011»