Quotes About Longing

We who have turned our lives over to Christ need to know how very much he longs to eat with us, to commune with us. He desires a perpetual Eucharistic feast in the inner sanctuary of the heart.

We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.

She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires

The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

We want more than there is.

Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.

It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

No one can have all he desires.

Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

Hope is merely another face of desire.

I had a very strong desire to carry out adventures, but in those early days I didn't actually do any. I just dreamt about it.

Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. The heart that sighs does not have what it desires.

Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.

Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.

All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.

O, she is the antidote to desire.

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.

This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.