Famous quotes containing the word longing:
“Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.”
—Peter Shaffer (b. 1926)
“The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)