Quotes About Pining

el corazón hambriento de cualquier migaja se alimenta

Human beings are unsatisfied beggar.

and this ache this trembling ache haunts me endlessly like you.

And all the time he knew it was his hunger eating him.

There is a German word, Sehnsucht , which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical connotations; C.S. Lewis defined it as the 'inconsolable longing' in the human heart for 'we know not what'. It seems rather German to be able to specify the unspecifiable. The longing for something - or, in our case, for someone.

What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.

we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. I didn't know what I wanted

To die of yearning for something you will never experience

I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.

Thou I cannot so freely say, My heart is with thee, my soul longeth after thee ; yet can I say, I long for such a longing heart (648).

Clean starved for a look.

O mistress mine! where are you roaming?

city's anthem, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," was written in 1954 by two gay lovers who were pining for "the city by the bay" after moving to Brooklyn Heights.

For all of my life I have needed more.

My life has been one long longing.

loneliness flowed through my bones with an ache.

The sad, fucking truth was that no matter who you are, you never, ever, get your fill.

I die of thirst here at the fountainside.

You kill me, Rose," he said melodramatically. "Every day is agony without you. Empty. Alone. I pine for you, wondering if you're even still alive.

I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

the hunger that hides in our hearts is the one that kills us" ~Isabelle, Step sister

It's the hunger in our hearts that kills us.

Me: How can I want you then when I don't want you now?

Hell, a man can lie there and want something so bad and be so full of wanting it he just plain forgets what it is he wants. Just like when you are a boy and the sap first rises and you think you will go crazy some night wanting something and you want it so bad and get so near sick wanting it you near forget what it is.