Quotes about Longing

A longing for things material is an instrument by which one may approach the love of God; even through coarse desires one may come to love the Creator.

It is not we who long for a day of rest, but the Sabbath spirit that is lonely and longs for us.

Artistic talent is like a brilliant firework which streaks across a pitch-black night, inspiring awe among onlookers but extinguishing itself in seconds, leaving behind only darkness and longing.

When all my dreams come true, they'll all be about you".

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.

No one has yet believed in God and the kingdom of God, no one has yet heard about the realm of the resurrected, and not been homesick from that hour, waiting and looking forward joyfully to being released from bodily existence.

There is also a false serenity that is not at all Christian. We need feel no shame as Christians about a measure of impatience, longing, protest against what is unnatural, and a strong measure of desire for freedom and earthly happiness and the capacity to effect change.

There is such a thing as a false composure which is quite unchristian. As Christians, we needn't be at all ashamed of some impatience, longing, opposition to what is unnatural, and our full share of desire for freedom, earthly happiness, and opportunity for effective work.

Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.

My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.

Nostalgia comes with the smell of rain.

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.