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Quotes about Longing

It is the Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." God is longing to be good to you.
— Joel Osteen
Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.
— Joel Rosenberg
Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."
— St. Augustine
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life. What I think they are really expressing is a desire for a life with less pressure.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.
— CS Lewis
I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.
— Albert Einstein
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child,A long ways from home,A long ways from home.
— Anonymous
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
— Anonymous
My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
— Anonymous
Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.
— Anonymous
Alas, my Love! ye do me wrongTo cast me off discourteously:And I have loved you so long,Delighting in your company.
— Anonymous
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
— Anonymous