Quotes about Longing

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us

Seven years of neurosurgery is a big deal, something I wanted for a long time, really excited about it.

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different things, but God is the one we really long for. His presence brings satisfaction; his absence brings thirst and longing.

There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else. C. S. Lewis

Augustine insisted that this longing is as true for Christ-followers as it is for anyone else: "If I should ask you why you believe in Christ, and why you have become Christians, every man will answer truthfully by saying: for the sake of a happy life.

Many come short, being satisfied with the works of God rather than hungering for and reaching on to God Himself." —A. W. Tozer

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." —C. S. Lewis