Quotes About Longing

Just as it did when I spoke to you that day from the phone, your face comes into focus more and more as I hold you here beside me.

Desiree. It's like falling in love every night and having your heart broken every morning... Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past.

Imagine the one god himself has reversed his clock and reversed your regrets. Imagine knowing the bone-deep truth that whatever impossibility would make you truly happy has been granted. Imagine knowing you can once again hold your lost lover or your newborn child. Imagine what you feel during those first seconds of knowing. Now, imagine those first seconds last for days on end. .... Like I said, I'm a chemist. It's all coming back to me.p62

I woke up with a heart attack just out of my field of vision and with my dick in my hand, saying, I love you I love you I love you over and over...And that my dear sweet love of my life, is how things were without you and I'd done everything I could to keep you from knowing that

I do know that I fell in love with the moment of falling in love and I wanted to keep that moment alive forever, at the expense of all those moments to follow.

She stole a piece of my heart but I couldn't ask for a better place I'd rather be imprisoned.

When you're a kid all you know is that your dad puts on his suit or overalls and vanishes from your life until nightfall. Sometimes my pops came back exhausted and scarlet-eyed, as if he'd been engaged in a low wattage war someplace.

Like many people who come to New York to live and then have to leave before they really want to, I spent the next three or four years with the vague feeling that there was a great party going on somewhere and I was not at it.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him. St. Augustine

You must long for God more than normal. You must be willing to live to give, not live to gain.

If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it's because you have a spiritual problem.

In the great balancing equations of Dog's mind, there are two things he cannot resist - ham, and me holding open a vehicle door. I'm pretty sure that ham is first and the only reason me holding open a vehicle door is in the running is because it might mean that we are going somewhere to get ham.

Empty in this dirt and flat on my back both hands gripped tightly and widely around my bare neck the truth of it all is i am very capable of love it's just that im not capable of letting you go and it goes, and it goes, and it goes, and it goes

I'm excited but afraid. I long to turn and wedge myself through the horse's arse from which I've just fallen, to sit safe in the hot womb of my room. But this is Jasper Jones, and he and come to me .

Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.

Which is scarier-- lust or temptation?

You know, sometimes you look at me with longing... ... even though I'm here with you.

Except heaven is a hope , and eden is a memory .

I still love you, Gustavo, but it's a habitual love, a wound in the knee that predicts rain.

Mírame, miénteme, pégame, mátame si quieres Pero no me dejes. No, no me dejes, nunca jamás Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Maybe it's the instinct of every immigrant, born of necessity or of longing:

And I would discover how much of life is defined by what you want to keep and what you are forced to lose.

I thought suddenly, what is the meaning of all these things? All these bags and bags I've been packing? We could take everything we have with us. We could take every single thing that every single person in the world has ever had. But not of it would mean anything to me. Because no matter how much I took and no no matter how much I had for the rest of my life, I didn't have him anymore. I could have piled everything from here straight to heaven. None of it was him.

Maybe it was denial, but maybe it was her only way of holding on to someone she had loved. Maybe we should all be so passionate.