Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 2
Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants. Coco Chanel French Designer More Coco Chanel Quotes 1
We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown [he or she] left behind. Clementine Paddleford American More Clementine Paddleford Quotes 1
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. Mahatma Gandhi Indian Philosopher More Mahatma Gandhi Quotes 1
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. George Eliot British Author More George Eliot Quotes 1
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. Mohandas Gandhi Indian Leader More Mohandas Gandhi Quotes 0
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 0
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself. Charles Lamb English Critic More Charles Lamb Quotes 0
Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers. William Ames English Philosopher More William Ames Quotes 0
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. Henry Ward Beecher American Clergyman More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes 0
It's special for Mats, he's been longing for that. He's won pretty much everything except a gold medal and a Stanley Cup. Hopefully, he can take care of the rest in the spring. Mikael Tellqvist More Mikael Tellqvist Quotes 0
I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me. Mohandas Gandhi More Mohandas Gandhi Quotes 0
[He had] an accent that carried the longing cadence of the exile. Peter Evans More Peter Evans Quotes 0
All lovers live by longing, and endure; summon a vision and declare it pure. Theodore Roethke American Poet More Theodore Roethke Quotes 0
So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition. Theodore Roethke American Poet More Theodore Roethke Quotes 0
newfound interest in science is a derivative of his longing to travel back in time and run a cohesive campaign. Tracey Schmitt More Tracey Schmitt Quotes 0
It's almost Twilight Zone y. There's an appeal to that longing for an imaginary pasta yearning for an innocence that was never so pure anyway. It's meant to be recognizably real, but it has to play as mythological as well. That's part of the balancing act. David Cronenberg More David Cronenberg Quotes 0
The first half of life is spent in longing for the second - the second half in regretting the first. French Proverb More French Proverb Quotes 0
A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American Poet More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes 0
And a nameless longing filled her breast, - A wish, that she hardly dared to own, For something better than she had known. John Greenleaf Whittier American Writer More John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes 0
When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work. Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity. Kabir Indian Philosopher More Kabir Quotes 0
I said to my longing heart, What is this river you want to cross? There are no travelers before you, there is no road. Do you see anyone moving or resting on that bank? Kabir Indian Philosopher More Kabir Quotes 0
Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region. Leonard Cohen Canadian Singer More Leonard Cohen Quotes 0
Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away. Madonna American Actress More Madonna Quotes 0