Quotes about Longing

Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.

There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else.

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.

The words alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language...those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.