Longing Quotes

When a man has cast his longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
T. s. eliot, quoted in the may, 24 edition of
Guy gavriel kay - we are the total of our longings....
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, Autobiography
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
Orison Swett Marden
The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
Malcolm Muggeridge
The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.
Malcolm Muggeridge
William shakespeare - i have immortal longings in me....
I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
Walt Whitman
I have Immortal longings in me.
William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 5 scene 2
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