“The longing for Europe has been all but extinguished in the young.”
“If some longing goes unmet, don’t be astonished. We call that Life.”
“I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.”
“That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.”
“My longing for truth was a single prayer.”
“There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That’s what I intend to do and what I’m longing for.”
“I realized that even though I had this urge, this longing, to write about other people, in order for it to be emotionally gripping, I needed to be in there somehow.”
“I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.”
“I have a longing for fiction – to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.”
“Happiness is the longing for repetition.”
“McNamara’s plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion.”
“The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.”
“I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.”
“The longing to produce great inspirations didn’t produce anything but more longing.”
“Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.”
“Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.”
“Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.”
“People are longing for tribe and community.”
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