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Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends ... and a passion for extremism is a veiled longing for death. — Milan Kundera

The things that I've been longing for were nothing but dreams. — Mika Yamamori

Every rose is longing for joy and love; every rose know the language of the heart. — Debasish Mridha

I was longing for the moment I was in, even as I was in it. — Dani Shapiro

I've been longing for,
Daisies to push through the floor,
And I wish that plant life would grow all around me,
So I won't feel dead anymore. — Owl City

There is no word for the emotion between pity and love, or for the one between longing and sorrow. — Carrie Anne Noble

155. The secret waits for eyes unclouded by longing. — Lao-Tzu

Human Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity. — Gustave Flaubert

I know that hunger for self-isolation, it eats u up. Disconnecting yourself from external world and longing to disappear. — Shreya Gupta

Love is the longing for heart and soul. — Debasish Mridha

I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure. — Kate Baldwin

Oh my love! You are the light of love in the darkness. I am longing for you, you are my flower and freshness. — Debasish Mridha

Through embrace we flow.Wanting,Longing for happiness to flow — Richard Allen Whisenant

I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not. — Rachel Zucker

Love is a longing for giving and receiving. — Debasish Mridha

We love certain things because they are longing for us. — Debasish Mridha

One needs longing to live and enemies make one long for them. — Aporva Kala

Her voice is lonely and full of longing: for him. — Ally Condie

I was so incredibly nostalgic for a life I knew I'd never, ever have again. — Paige Harbison

In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. — Leigh Bardugo

Nostalgia is a longing for your home. — Will Advise

Love is life.
The soul is ever longing for love. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You think embracing the longing while waiting for the right man is impossible? Well obviously you didn't get the memo. — Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

My head didn't ache, but my heart did. The longing for Aspen's arms was so familiar, it was like it never left. — Kiera Cass

Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise. — Jean Klein

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man. — Milan Kundera

Hearing a crow with no mouth
Cry in the deep
Darkness of the night,
I feel a longing for
My father before he was born. — Ikkyu

A wave of sadness washed over Sam. It was that feeling again, that sense of longing for something she couldn't remember ever having. — Jennifer Hillier

The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this. — John Piper

Even victims of atrocious brutality and intractable pain may retain a longing, sometimes even a zest, for life. — Carl Sagan

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost. — Milan Kundera

Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is you are longing for. — Jane Urquhart

An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Today is such a lovely day,
my heart is dancing with joy.
My mind is flowing with time
and my soul is longing for your soul. — Debasish Mridha

My longing for truth was a single prayer. — Edith Stein

Hunger of the heart is much stronger than hunger for food. — Amanda Comer

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God ... — Evelyn Underhill

Longing for love makes a woman beautiful and beloved. — Debasish Mridha

On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is. — Soren Kierkegaard

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Longing for the past keeps us looking back; but hoping in a brighter future keeps us looking up! EL — Evinda Lepins

A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life. — Stanley Kunitz

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee. — Augustine Of Hippo

Longing for the mountains — John Muir

Incessant inner prayer is a continuous longing of the human spirit for God. But — Nina A Toumanova

For every man there is a deep longing — Sunday Adelaja

People kept on longing for meaning and hope, but the annals of the past are a muddy story of chaos only. — Richard Flanagan

You came and I was crazy for you
and you cooled my mind that burned with longing — Sappho

If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it. — Robert Goolrick

The Holy Spirit will not allow you to live satisfied on the rubbish heap; he will nurture a longing for the City of God to beat in your heart. — Gloria Furman

Yet my longing for her was like a bad cold that had hung on for years despite my conviction that I was sure to get over it at any moment. — Donna Tartt

You came and I was longing for you.
You cooled a heart that burned with desire. — Sappho

Your longing for ME is my message to you,
All your attempts to reach ME,
Are in reality MY attempts to reach you. — Rumi

None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it. — Richard Chenevix Trench

Rain,
Aren't you my soul's joyful tears
only longing for the sky to be happy? — Munia Khan

Everyone hustles his life along, and is troubled by a longing for the future and weariness of the present. — Seneca.

There were moments when she felt a sudden, violent longing for him, but it was only impatience, not pain. — Ayn Rand

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. — Judi Dench

My heart is sair-I dare na tell,
My heart is sair for Somebody. — Robert Burns

I have a longing for fiction, to try to believe in it and to disappear into it. — Karl Ove Knausgaard

If i think about us logically, there is no chance for us. But logic doesn't produce magic. — Cristian Peter Marinescu-Ivan

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual. — Andrei Tarkovsky

Bear the pain of longing silently, my heart
for this is the cure.
The ultimate sacrifice is to curb your desires
and surrender the ego. — Rumi

So I perversely circle the late stars, drowsier and drowsier, sleepily longing for something. — Sylvia Plath

Have gentle utterances that will inspire a superior longing for all time ... — Philip The Apostle

Sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are. — Shauna Niequist

I have been longing for inner consistency. — Virginia Woolf

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach. — Ayn Rand

And how do you really feel?
Like I'll never recover. Like I'll never draw another breath without half of it being a wish for him. — Jane Seville

All those years when I was a child, longing for it to be 'my turn,' it hadn't ever occurred to me that my turn would be over, by and by. — Anne Tyler

The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much. — Margaret Mitchell

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love. — Sylvia Plath

We're living for Likes, but we're longing for love. — Craig Groeschel

For a while she had a vague longing to be a psychologist. "Talking therapy is dead," Gary said when she raised the idea. "It's all pills now. — Rafael Yglesias

You are not a human being living your life, but you are a spiritual being longing for life. — Debasish Mridha

I felt bad for trying to live a happy, full life, while my heart was buried in a dead man's chest. — Kristen Hope Mazzola

We clean our plates, yet we're still famished - starving for something other than food. — Kate Wicker

The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. — Alain De Botton

My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called. — Mahatma Gandhi

He is a unicorn. I want to gently capture him and bring him back to my lab for research. — Amanda Mosher

Try claiming God's blessings instead of merely longing for them. — Henry Jacobsen

The longing of my soul is to know and obey the Supreme-being,God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I believe our longing for an innate harmony runs deeper than our longing for righteousness. — Evelyn Rodriguez

They taught me longing - Sehnsucht; made me for good or ill, and before I was six years old, a votary of the Blue Flower. — Alister E. McGrath

And you'd be left with beautiful memories and the longing for what had been and what could never be again — Julie Kagawa

There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past. — Deborah L. Norris

What you are longing for is longing for you. — Ralph Marston

Puffin the cat follows us for a while, with Finn shooing at her, which only makes her longing to join us more intense. — Maggie Stiefvater

How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters. — Iris Murdoch

Deep within each of us is a longing for home. We yearn for a place of comfort where we can be ourselves, where we can realize our dreams. — Denise Linn

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach? — Greta Garbo

A particularly Jersey malaise
the inextinguishable longing for elsewheres. — Junot Diaz

I don't have a vast longing for the stage. — Anthony Hopkins

The infinity of this vacancy, the pervasive pain, the longing for some spirit, some lightness, some joy - that's all that is left. — Martha Manning

What is the gospel according to Jesus? Simply this: that the love we all long for in our innermost heart is already present, beyond longing. — Stephen Mitchell

Many are hurting for love, while many are suffering from a love that hurts. — Anthony Liccione

It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge. — Albert Einstein