Quotes About Longing

And I am not one of these long-living fictional characters who prays for death as a release from the captivity of eternal life; not for me the endless whining and wailing of the undead.

O menino apenas olhava para o chão, dando a impressão de que tentava convencer sua alma a não mais habitar o pequeno corpo e a fugir pela janela e voar bem alto até o céu, indo o mais longe possível.

I know what I really want for Christmas. I want my childhood back. Nobody is going to give me that.… I know it doesn't make sense, but since when is Christmas about sense, anyway? It is about a child of long ago and far away, and it is about the child of now. In you and me. Waiting behind the door of our hearts for something wonderful to happen.

But let none, he added, pray to have the full music; for it will make him who hears it a footsore traveller in

I sat thinking. How it was she who'd mentioned love first. How she seemed to be waiting, the door still between us, for me to act. And I imagined that if I reached for her I would find her where she lay waiting in the water, and my fingers would glide over her bare wet skin until every inch of her, every crook and hollow, would become mine. I would vouch for her with my life.

Because it was the endless wanting that would break you, I thought. The constant craving for a love that might never be fulfilled that would bring you low, bit by bit, until one day you'd no longer be able to recognize any part of yourself.

para muitas pessoas, o poder é como beber água salgada, ficam cada vez com mais sede. (85)

Oh, God, you bore me this morning," my wife said. "I've been bored for the last six years," I said. I took a cab to the airport and an afternoon plane back to the city. We had been married twelve years and had been lovers for two years before our marriage, making a total of fourteen years in all that we had been together, and I never saw her again.

The clouds reminded me of hootch, the rain reminded me of hootch, the stars reminded me of hootch. I used to dream about girls before I got on the hootch but after that I just used to dream about hootch. I mean dreams are supposed to come from some very deep part of your mind like sex but with me it was hootch.

Ä°nsan bir yerdeyken baÅŸka bir yerde olmak istiyorsa mesele gemiye binmekten ibaret deÄŸildir. Asl?nda baÅŸka bir ülkeyi özlemez. Kendi içinde var olmayan ya da bulmay? baÅŸaramad??? bir ÅŸeyin özlemini çeker.

Kimseyi beklemiyordum; etraf?mdaki kad?nlar da kocalar?n? bekliyorlard? sadece, ama bana hepimiz çok daha fazlas?n? bekliyormuÅŸuz gibi geliyordu.

Lo que sentía por Eduardo era más parecido a la nostalgia que al espíritu aventurero del amor tradicional, pero no era un sentimiento menos fuerte. Comprendió que, si verdaderamente buscaba la pureza, nunca la encontraría en sí mismo.

I have experienced all kinds of foolish melancholy—I've been homesick for countries I've never seen, and longed to be what I couldn't be—but all these moods were trivial compared to my premonition of death.

She still required the dangerous, maddening nerve-quiver of vice to render existence bearable.

The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.

The things that scare us the most are also what we want most in life.

I drove for miles and miles and wound up at your door. I've had you so many times but somehow I want more.

Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.

He ignores you, but somehow you fall for him more every day. He does nothing, but yet that's enough to win you over.

Don't get too attached to someone you know you can't be together with.

Everyone tells me I should forget about you, you don't deserve me. They're right, you don't deserve me, but I deserve you.

The saddest part of love life is when you cannot live with or without the one you love.

We fall in love with people we can't have.

It is better to have what you can't love than to love what you cant have.