Pastoral Resources

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.

A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.

America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

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.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

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.

It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.

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.

There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.