Quotes About Longing

Some of us loved. Some of us couldn't. Some of us were loved. Some of us weren't. Some of us never understood what the fuss was about. Some of us wanted it so badly that we died trying. Some of us swear we died of heartbreak, not AIDS.

I am seeing that I cannot be a part of the music that sets him free.

There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you're in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself. If the moment doesn't pass, that's it-- you're done. And if the moment does pass, it never goes far. It stands in the distance, ready for whenever you want it back. Sometimes it's even there when you thought you were searching for something else, like an escape route, or your lover's face.

I wanted to like her and I wanted her to like me and that was more want than I had saddled myself up for in many a moon.

She is always there for him, and he must like that. His friends like her, and he must like that, too. But that's not the same as love. She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for. They don't have silences together; they have noise. -A

when I look out a window I wish for you on the other side even if you're not there I can see you in the clouds

There was a time before you but I can't remember it now a time before your beauty and I were formally introduced I'm sure I lived without you but I don't remember how can't imagine living without these feelings you've produced

It hurts that I can be so full of him, when he's so empty of me.

Even though I was turned on and warm and with him…I thought to myself, I'm missing something.

It's a terrible thing to not feel missed.

She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.

I told him I wasn't feeling well. When what I meant was that I'm feeling uneasy. Uncertain. Calling everything into question and wanting to bend it into the answer I want. I don't think that in itself is love. But it can definitely be a side effect -Rhiannon

Todo era mucho más sencillo cuando no quería nada. Cuando quieres algo y no lo consigues...puedes convertirte en alguien muy cruel

She is sitting right next to me. I want to run my finger along her arm. I want to kiss her neck. I want to whisper the truth in her ear. But instead I watch as she conjugates verbs. I listen as the air is filled with a foreign language, spoken in haphazard bursts. I try to sketch her in my notebook, but I am not an artist, and all that comes out are the wrong shapes, the wrong lines. I cannot hold onto anything that's her.

En esta vida extraña, lo que quiero por encima de todo es que Tony sea feliz. Hace mucho tiempo que sabemos que no estábamos predestinados a enamorarnos, pero una parte de mí sigue ilusionándose por él. Quiero un mundo justo. Y en un mundo justo, Tony brillaría.

Noah se ha convertido en mi «cuánto falta para».

Quiero estar cerca de él y no por una vaga noción de lo que sería estar a su lado, sino porque ya lo he estado y no quiero que termine.

Yo lo único que quiero es estar contigo.

I didn't want to see her. I was desperate to see her. I wanted to hold it together. I wanted to melt down right at her feet and scream, Look what you've done to me.

Most of the time when we think we're looking for death, we're really looking for love -Rhiannon

The desire to take a moment and make it last forever. The desire to stay like this for much longer than it will really last.

Quando te vi hoje, não sabia que estava te esperando até você aparecer. E então toda aquela espera tomou conta de mim em um segundo.

You know what it's like to look at someone and realize they're hungry for you?

The song is Always Wanting You, a favorite of Dad's, where cynical, heartsick Merle croon about always wanting but never having his love, and about how hard it will be to face tomorrow cuz he knows he'll just be wanting her again. Doomed.