Quotes with longing

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  • Kahlil Gibran The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Alva Myrdal The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bertrand Russell 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
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • George Bernard Shaw We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Charles Lamb 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 essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Bernardine Dohrn You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.
    Bernardine Dohrn
    American law professor and activist
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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 (1807 - 1882)
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