Quotes about Longing

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.

You can be the most grateful person in the world, but if you have not arrived at the place God wants you to be, to do the thing God has destined you and only you to do, that longing will never go away.

sometimes it's the one thing we've never had, but have wanted for so long, that has the power to disappoint us the most.

She looked at him for the longest time, and he sensed she wanted to tell him something, so he kept quiet, giving her ample opportunity. She finally stood on tiptoe and kissed him, high on the cheek, about as far away from his mouth as she could get. But that was okay. She'd kissed him. It was a start. And he'd take it.

I love beautiful; always have. I never saw why I should hate what I wish I had. Love it harder. Work your way closer. Clasp your hands around it tighter. Till you find a way to make it yours.

It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without deficiency, no longing. This is the secret of the human heart, Rom.

Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

God has so made man's heart that nothing can ever fill it but God himself.

My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.

Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.