Quotes About Longing

They say anticipation makes pleasure more intense.

wanted life, but deep in her heart of hearts she only wanted

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye.

Les autres gens ont au moins un peu d'ambition ou une petite étincelle d'illusion pour se réchauffer les mains. Moi je n'ai rien. Je voudrais me balader dans le vaste monde. Toujours plus loin. Un beau jour je tomberais peut-être sur un patelin ou sur un être et je pourrais dire: ça y est, je reste ici, je suis chez moi.

Perhaps the two of them wouldn't love each other so much if they were allowed to.

There's got to be someone for me, who's breathing Berlin. And he will have black hair and a bowtie of white silk

I'll wager my life there are millions of men Who wish that their wives were their sweethearts again

I lost the sunshine and roses, I lost the heavens so blue, I lost the beautiful rainbow, I lost the morning dew. I lost the angel who gave me Summer the whole winter through, I lost the gladness that turned into sadness When I lost you.

Questa ipersessualità potrebbe essere un mezzo per procurarsi quest'amore ora, da adulta. Ma non serve a niente, capite: nessun uomo, nemmeno cento uomini, possono dare quel che i suoi genitori le hanno negato più di venti anni fa.

Hunger: One of the few cravings that cannot be appeased with another solution.

I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days.

I believe in a set of values I cannot live by. I set high goals for myself, I seek perfection, dream of exotic faraway places. But ultimately, what I long for isn't far away at all. It's in my own backyard. Imperfection charms me, familiar things move me... a celebration of what we have, instead of what we long for. That for me, is glamor.

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.

Who in the world has not yearned for a loved one, has never said, If only he or she could come back just once, just one more time...? Despite the fact that it can never happen, never ever. Surely this is the saddest thing about our mortal world, and its sadness will go on shrouding human life like a blanket of fog until its final extinction.

Dhe nuk ka asgjë më të tmerrshme se ëndrrat e thyera. Ato i gjejmë përgjatë gjithë rrugës, duke na gjakosur jo këmbët me të cilat i shkelim, por zemrën me të cilën i deshëm.

Mama, don't take him. We need him,' Jack whispered. 'Please. He will not forget you if you let him stay with us. He will love you for ever and every time he laughs, he will remember how you once laughed...

Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.

My heart belongs to you,' He promised. 'Would you have loved me when I was a girl?' 'I have always loved you. Even before I met you I loved the idea of you.

You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a happy thing to possess, for nothing on earth - no goal, no person how ever beloved - will answer it. It points to the sky and to the heavens and the stars and when it cannot reach them, it must fall back to pierce your heart.

He who is not impatient is not in love.