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Longing, for everyone, is always there, isn't it? More intense at some times than others. You get closer to less longing - an odd metaphoric phrasing, I realize - then, you are further and longing more than ever again.

The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear.

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

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.

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.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

All I can say is sometimes home gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can't leave you, and there's always that longing.

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

Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.