Quotes about Longing

Concupierunt concupiscentiam in deserto. . . . Numquid poterit parare mensam populo suo?

All those days and nights were without romance, horrible.

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Think how your life would be changed if you passionately longed for and lived every day as if this would be the moment Jesus would return!

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step. For lasting passion is the dream of a harlot, and from it we wake in despair.

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

Sang Ly, we are literature—our lives, our hopes, our desires, our despairs, our passions, our strengths, our weaknesses. Stories express our longing not only to make a difference today but to see what is possible for tomorrow. Literature has been called a handbook for the art of being human. So

Unlived life is a destructive, irresistible force that works softly but inexorably.

You are a slave of what you need in your soul.