Quotes about Longing

Human desire is infinite by its nature; it cannot be satisfied. You must take your stand against it because you cannot satisfy it.

Desire—wanting something that appears to be good for some purpose or pleasure.

The feeling of longing for home is born into us. That wonderful dream cannot become real without great faith — enough for the Holy Ghost to lead us to repentance, baptism, and the making and keeping of sacred covenants with God. This faith requires enduring bravely the trials of mortal life.

A loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.

"Never give up on something you can't go a day without thinking about."

Whatever is singing is found, awaiting the return of whatever is lost.

It took me a long time to see what was happening to me then. I have known no sudden revelations. No stroke of light has ever knocked me blind to the ground. But I know now that even then, in my hopelessness and sorrow, I began a motion of the heart toward my origins. Far from rising above them, I was longing to sink into them until I would know the fundamental things. I needed to know the original first chapter of the world.

I wept in my dreams. I dreamed you lay in the grave; I awoke, and the tears still poured down my cheeks. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you had left me; I awoke and I went on weeping long and bitterly. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you were still kind to me; I awoke, and still the flow of my tears streams on.

I know you'll never love me but maybe you'll stay for awhile.

The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.