Quotes about Longing

Dost thou love picking meat? Or wouldst thou see A man in the clouds, and have him speak to thee?

But though this be so, yet since things present and our fleshly appetite are such near neighbours one to another; and again, because things to come, and carnal sense, are such strangers one to another; therefore it is, that the first of these so suddenly fall into amity, and that distance is so continued between the second.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.

There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else.

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.