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For the body at best Is a bundle of aches, Longing for rest; It cries when it wakes.
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
People are better inside in your head. When you're longing for them, they're perfect.
How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.
Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.
Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.
The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
A soldier's longing to talk about his experiences of battle is a wound that never heals.
Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.
Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.
'Old Fashioned' can expect strong interest because it taps into a universal human longing.
Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.
My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful.
Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.
I'd definitely love to do more acting. My heart cries out for it; it's such a deep longing.
Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?
Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.
The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.
My longings are best met when, in prayer, I simply let my heart beat in time with the Lord's.
We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.
Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.
Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
My definition of the blues is the naked cry of the human heart longing to be in union with God.
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.
Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God.
There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me.
Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.
The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.
I have this insane and unabated longing for San Francisco. I come up there every chance that I get.
Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...
The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.
People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.
Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.
Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?
I am longing to see Libya rejoin the world as the internationalist Mediterranean country that it was.
I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.
Daring to dream what is deepest in our collective longings is what makes us most human and fully alive.
Believe me, I'm not longing for the days when I was going to become a lawyer. Especially come tax time.
But for my sighs, I should be drowned by my tears; and but for my tears, I should be burned by my sighs.
I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.
In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.
Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.
The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.
Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing.