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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! Solit... by Hermann Hesse

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. by Henry Ward Beecher

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-... by Friedrich Nietzsche

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 cos... by Honore de Balzac

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... by Ira Gershwin

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. by Isabel Allende

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... by Isak Dinesen

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. by Jacob Grimm

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. by James Russell Lowell

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
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