Quotes About Longing

We know if we could truly love, and be loved, and never lose love, we would finally be happy.

We think you'll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That's what makes a woman come alive.

For that which draws us to the heart of God is that which often first lifts our own hearts above the mundane, awakens longing and desire. And it is that life, my brothers, the life of your heart, that God is most keenly after.

he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.

in the heart of every man is a desperate desire for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to love.

I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.

But suddenly he comprehended why her face haunted him, why he felt this terrible need to see her again: it was to possess her, to melt into her, to burn, to burn, to burn to ashes on that body and in those eyes. To postpone such a desire for a week, a month, a year, several years even, that can be done. But for eternity is when the iron bites.

I could scream abuse at him all day long; he wouldn't mind at all. It's me he wants, my look, my outside; not my emotions or my mind or my soul or even my body. Not anything human.

I'm so far from everything. From normality. From light. From everything I want to be.

It's like living in the Arabian Nights. Being the favourite in the harem. But the one perfume you really want is freedom.

I would have gone to bed with him that night. If he had asked. If he had come and kissed me. Not for his sake, but for being alive's.

there were times i thought i would forget her. but forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. only it didn't happen to me

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Estoy tan lejos de todo...! De la normalidad... De la luz... De lo que quiero ser.

Sin embargo, resultaba hasta cómico que, en el momento en que yo creía estar realmente harto de ella, volviesen a ocupar mi mente los viejos sentimientos.

There were even times I thought I would forget her. But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn't happen to me.

They did not kiss. They could not. How can you mercilessly imprison all natural sexual instinct for twenty years and then not expect the prisoner to be racked by sobs when the doors are thrown open?

Admiration of beauty and longing for possession are not love.

Yes,' muttered Jon, 'life's beastly short. One wants to life forever and know everything.' 'And love everybody?' 'No,' cried Jon; 'I only want to love once - you.

A sudden ache beset his heart; he had stumbled on just one of those past moments in his life, whose beauty and rapture he had failed to arrest, whose wings had fluttered away into the unknown; he had stumbled on a buried memory, a wild sweet time, swiftly choked and ended.

I would love you all the day, every night we would kiss and play, if with me you'd fondly stray, over the hills and far away.

I learned it is not enough just to be happy with what we have; we must honor our material desires as well.

I've loved you all my life. Even before we met. Part of it wasn't even you. It was just a promise of you.

I have a plan, one I've been plotting for years now. It is my only way out.