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Quotes About Longing

depression, when it finally came to me, was in fact no stranger, not even a visitor totally unannounced; it had been tapping at my door for decades.
~ William Styron
Is it best to know about a child's death, even one so horrible, or to know that the child lives but that you will never, never see him again?
~ William Styron
If I am no longer able to function with you, it is, you understand, due to no lack of virility but because almost everything about you, especially your body, leaves me totally without sensation... I
~ William Styron
but I ain't seen 'em in twenty years.
~ William W. Johnstone
No. My family lived back in Ohio. Still does, I reckon. I ain't seen 'em since I was twelve.
~ William W. Johnstone
The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more.
~ William Wordsworth
I wanted to know her the way a bee wants to know a great bright flower.
~ Unknown
It's not good for a boy to want something with all his heart and then be disappointed. Things like that can hurt for a long time.
~ Wilson Rawls
And not there, not there, not there, Your laughing face and your wind-blown hair Leave not even a ghost in the garden.
~ Winifred Holtby
If what I feel for you is dislike -- for coming between me and my work sometime every day in the last fifteen months --if that's dislike...If being unable to forget your voice, or the way you turn your neck, or the lights in your hair -- if that's dislike...If wanting to hear that you're married and dreading to hear that you're married...If resenting the condescension that pretends you're not out of my reach...Perhaps you can identify these symptoms for me.
~ Winston Graham
If we lived for ever, who would look forward eagerly to tomorrow? If there were no darkness, should we so appreciate the sun? Warmth after cold, food after hunger, drink after thirst, sexual love after the absence of sexual love, the fatherly greeting after being away, the comfort and dryness of home after a ride in the rain, the warmth and peace and security of one's fireside after being among enemies. Unless there were contrast there might be satiety. He
~ Winston Graham
Ross pensò: se solo potessimo fermare la vita per un po', la fermerei qui. Non al mio ritorno a casa, non al momento di lasciare Trenwith, ma qui, qui, mentre ci avviciniamo alla sommità della collina, oltre Sawle, il crepuscolo che accarezza i confini della terra e Demelza che cammina canticchiando al mio fianco.
~ Winston Graham
One did not so much feel sorrow at his absence as a sense of the unfitness of his not being there.
~ Winston Graham
L'autunno indugiava come invaghito della propria perfezione.
~ Winston Graham
Caroline took a long draught of wine, half a glass as against Ross's sip. She leaned back against the red plush. 'For instance, Ross, I could lie happily with you tonight.' His eyes went quickly up to hers. 'Could you?' 'Yes. In fact I've always wanted to – as perhaps you know.
~ Winston Graham
Let me have your abyss.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
So how do you suddenly lose the habit of yourself? of day follows night? of the snows of yesteryear? of rosy apples? of the yearning for love, which is never enough? from "Moment of Silence
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
Pardon me, deserts, that I don't rush to you bearing a spoonful of water.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
When I grow too old to dream, I'll have you to remember, When I grow too old to dream, Your love will stay in my heart.
~ Unknown
MedytowaÅ'em tedy (wci?? na oceanie, miotany statkiem, który miotaÅ' siÄ™ na fali) ?e miÅ'o?? jest wysiÅ'kiem woli, ogniem, który rozpalamy w sobie, bo tak chcemy, bo chce siÄ™ by? zakochanym, bo nie mo?na znie?? i?by siÄ™ nie byÅ'o zakochanym.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Mnie wiÄ™c nie wolno byÅ'o siÄ™ przyglÄ…da? i staraÅ'em siÄ™ nie widzie?, ale, majÄ…c przed sobÄ… Fryderyka, który siedziaÅ' obok niej na Å'aweczce, znów natrÄ™tnie zapytywaÅ'em siebie: czy widziaÅ'? Czy wiedziaÅ'? I czyhaÅ'em na jedno chocia?by spojrzenie jego, z tych niby obojÄ™tnych a przeÅ›lizgujÄ…cych siÄ™ chyÅ'kiem, Å'akomych.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
in deinen süßen heißen mädchenheimlichen Mondrausch.
~ WOLFGANG BORCHERT
Our love, our love will last forever. It's forever but it just doesn't work. That's why it will always be romantic because it can not be complete.
~ Woody Allen
Your still searching for me in every woman. You'll always seek to duplicate what we had. You know it.
~ Woody Allen