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I have a longing for violin or organ. Is it too simple to say those sustaining sounds symbolise immortality?
Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.
Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.
There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.
What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.
Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.
Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.
In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.
There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.
Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.
The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.
For whatever reason, I've always gravitated towards music that feels nostalgic or longing or beautifully tragic.
Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for.
When the boys and girls would line up separately in kindergarten, I'd find myself longing to be in the other line.
We are all the same ... all the same... longing to find our way back ... back to the One ... back to the Only One!
My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.
I lose hope when the desire for life awakens within me; but I regain it whenever the longing for death comes upon me.
There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.
Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.
Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.
It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.
Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.
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.
It is not possible to achieve by vigilance in anger and revenge what the soul is longing for. The soul longs for peace.
I'm one of these guys who always feel like the outsider, you know? I'm always longing to be part of something, you know?
Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.
Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know.
I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.
Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.
The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings.
Sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are
My work is mostly about longing, human relationships, science and children - and a little bit about ghosts and reincarnation.
All I can say is sometimes home gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can't leave you, and there's always that longing.
It is in identifying yourself with the hopes, dreams, fears and longings of others that you may understand them and help them.
The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.
I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.
So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.
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.
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.
In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between the bell notes.
You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.
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.
The thing that makes love stories work, in my opinion, in movies and novels and country & western songs, is the feeling of longing.
Our longing for immortality is good! It was put there on purpose. We were meant - from the moment of our creation - to live forever.
The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.
During teenager times, the feelings of longing is perhaps at its most strong and profound because everything feels multiplied by ten.
Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.
Birthright citizenship in America is part of something larger: The American longing to sever from history, to be a place of new beginnings.