Quotes About Longing

Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.

Desiring lasts a long time, demands and requests go on to infinity; fulfillment is short and is meted out sparingly. But even the final satisfaction itself is only apparent; the wish fulfilled at once makes way for a new one.

I didn't know what to do with all of the sadness. A hundred and fifty years! Do you have any idea how long a hundred and fifty years is in the family of man? She clicked her fingers, and I thought of Miss Isabel, counting children in for the beats of a dance. That long, she said.

you don't know what thirst is until you drink for the first time" ? Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

He saw the dark, slender, graceful outline of her form. A woman lay in his arms! And he held her closer. He who had been alone in the sad, silent watches of the night was not now and never must be again alone. He who had yearned for the touch of a hand felt the long tremble and the heart-beat of a woman.

He smiled a little wearily. "Wal, old — trail driver, we pay," he whispered, feebly. "I reckon — I cain't — wait for — little gray-eyed — Ann!".

I'm a child in that respect: able to live, psychically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger of crushing the waited-for event with the freight of my excessive hope.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time.

You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.

She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.

Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.

She must talk to a man who was ten immensities away.

Janie full of that oldest human longing - self-revelation.

he meant to marry her right from the train. Hurry up and come because he was about to turn into pure sugar thinking about her.

It was hard to love a woman that always made you feel so wishful.

Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think.

You'se something tuh make uh man forgit tuh git old and forgit tuh die.

Some of dese mornin's and it won't be long, you gointuh wake up callin' me and Ah'll be gone.

Why, Tea Cake? Whut good do combin' mah hair do you? It's mah comfortable, not yourn." "It's mine too. Ah ain't been sleepin' so good for more'n uh week cause Ah been wishin' so bad tuh git mah hands in yo' hair. It's so pretty. It feels jus' lak underneath uh dove's wing next to mah face.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish onboard.

Ships at a distance have every mans' wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, ever landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.

Maybe he ain't nothin', she cautioned herself, but he is something in my mouth. He's got tuh be else Ah ain't got nothin' tuh live for. Ah'll lie and say he is. If Ah don't, life won't be nothin' but uh store and uh house.