Quotes by Longing Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled. Hildegard of Bingen longing spirit clouds How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. Hermann Hesse longing independence solitude There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing. Henry Ward Beecher longing moments heart I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing. Friedrich Nietzsche longing arrows i-love-him But for my sighs, I should be drowned by my tears; and but for my tears, I should be burned by my sighs. Ibn al-Farid longing tears should There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now. Henry Ward Beecher longing moments heart We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing. Honore de Balzac longing cost care There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me. Ira Gershwin longing turns watches It got to a point of where it was ruining my health and I just hated it. I hated doing it and I couldn't stop without some kind of help to get the longing for it out of my system. Irene Cara longing kind helping Writing is a constant exercise in longing. Isabel Allende longing exercise writing In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between the bell notes. Izumi Shikibu bells longing never-forget our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home. Isak Dinesen longing blessed home He who is too well off is always longing for something new. Jacob Grimm grimm longing something-new It is not possible to achieve by vigilance in anger and revenge what the soul is longing for. The soul longs for peace. James A. Forbes longing soul revenge The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood. James Russell Lowell longing silent woods Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is you are longing for. Jane Urquhart longing mind mistake How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more. Jane Welsh Carlyle longing goodness ideas The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other. Jane Yolen longing tales fall She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it. Jean Rhys longing thirsty would-be Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they gave voice to their most shameful longings and knowledge? Jeffrey Eugenides longing voice people «1234567891011»