Quotes About Longing

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 [and women].

You got me in de go-long.

The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

When you're abroad, you always miss your country.

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

I'm a huge food addict.

My father is gone, and I miss him as only an adoring daughter can.

Any guy would like to play being out for so long. You miss that adrenaline and everything that comes with it.

A piece of my heart will aways be in Alabama.

God, I hope she is found alive.

I can eat Chipotle all day long for years.

I wish with all my heart I had children and I think I would've been a good mum.

An' this house just ain't no home, Anytime she goes away.

I'd give my left arm for the Merrimack.

I wanted things that I couldn't at times articulate.

Hay momentos en la vida en que se desea tomar el camino más largo a fin de mantener vivo caminando el hervidero de ideas en el que nos encontramos inmersos y a cuyo fluir desea uno abandonarse.

Woe to the man, as to the woman, who has left no desire unsatisfied! All is over then.

El dolor dejó en el rostro de esta mujer un velo de tristeza. Esta nube no se disipó hasta la edad terrible en que la mujer comienza a añorar sus buenos tiempos pasados sin haberlos disfrutado, cuando ve marchitarse sus rosas y cuando los deseos del amor renacen con el ansia de prolongar las últimas sonrisas de la juventud.

De entrada, intimidado por el alto rango de esta mujer, a Lucien le dominaron todos los terrores, las esperanzas y desesperanzas que acompañan al primer amor y lo sitúan de forma tan preeminente en el corazón por los golpes que alternativamente asestan el dolor y el placer.

a clerk, a machine, a riding-school hack, eating and drinking and sleeping at fixed hours. I should be like everyone else. And that's what they call living, that life at the grindstone, doing the same thing over and over again.... I am hungry and nothing is offered to appease my appetite.

who had not felt his daughter's heart beat against his breast for ten years, "do you want me to die of joy?

Los hombres que tienen tantas cosas que expresar en bellas obras soñadas durante mucho tiempo sienten cierto desprecio por la conversación, trato en el que el espíritu se rebaja al degradarse.

For a father it is hell to be without your children;

multe femei triste al c?ror suflet, desf?cut de toate leg?turile omene?ti, tânjea dup? îndelunga sinucidere s?vâr?it? în sânul lui Dumnezeu.