Quotes About Yearning

Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.

The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning.

There can be great depths of love that are not reciprocated.

So. You want to die. No, I mean, you don't even want to go through the hassle of dying. You wish you didn't exist. If only you could disappear

Funny how you can live your whole life waiting and not know it... Waiting for your real life to begin. Maybe the most real thing the end. To realize when it's too late. I know now that I loved him more than anything on earth or off of it.

I want to be two people at once. One runs away.

Ero un guscio. Vuoto. Accostami all'orecchio e senti il rombo lontano di un oceano fantasma.

He heard a loon call, piercing and forlorn, and it poured into his spirit like cool water. It was a sad cry and he realized as he listened how barren the river had felt in the days without it. Why was a wail that seemed so lost and lonely so…what? Essential and lovely.

Jasper's weight on my leg an aching absence.

felt bad but couldn't help myself. It was Jasper, not just. It was all of it. Was this hell? To love like this, to grieve from fifteen feet, an uncrossable distance?

Why don't we have a word for the utterance between laughing and crying?

I know now that I loved him more than anything on earth or off of it.

Ich will zwei Menschen gleichzeitig sein. Der eine rennt weg.

He would have given his own life gladly to hear her sing to him one more time.

My favorite poem, the one by Li Shang-Yin: When Will I Be Home? When will I be home? I don't know. In the mountains, in the rainy night, The Autumn lake is flooded. Someday we will be back together again. We will sit in the candlelight by the West window. And I will tell you how I remembered you Tonight on the stormy mountain.

He had been looking forward to a further insight into the life of this woman he was so deeply in love with and still knew so little about.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.

Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.

And this went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival taunted her until she wept and would not eat.

In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.

so he asked Amnon, “Why are you, the son of the king, so depressed morning after morning? Wonít you tell me?” Amnon replied, “I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalomís sister.”

David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”

David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”