Quotes About Longing

Tu rostro está aquí: cómo nos mira y cómo lo miramos. Te fuiste sin decir adiós. Nadie te sabe, todos te añoran

Por supuesto que añoraba todo eso con los ojos resecos porque los animales de ciudad no lloran.

Luna congelada Con esta soledad alevosa tranquila con esta soledad de sagradas goteras de lejanos aullidos de monstruoso silencio de recuerdos al firme de luna congelada de noche para otros de ojos bien abiertos con esta soledad inservible vacía se puede algunas veces entender el amor.

Lo perdido tuvo color pero ahora es incoloro. Los latidos del gastado corazón invaden nuestra noche, pero el insomnio actual tiene otra partitura. Lo perdido es también un par o dos de labios que probaron el sabor de los míos, y que ahora tan sólo puedo besar en mi memoria.

Viceversa" Tengo miedo de verte necesidad de verte esperanza de verte desazones de verte tengo ganas de hallarte preocupación de hallarte certidumbre de hallarte pobres dudas de hallarte tengo urgencia de oírte alegría de oírte buena suerte de oírte y temores de oírte o sea resumiendo estoy jodido y radiante quizás más lo primero que lo segundo y también viceversa.

A veces me siento desdichada, nada más que de no saber qué es lo que estoy echando de menos.

Hay días en que la recuerdo y me pregunto: ¿Qué estará haciendo? Hay noches en que la extraño y me pregunto: ¿Qué me estoy haciendo?

We writers can use our own longing - and frequently do - without ever having to understand or analyze it. That is why our stories are often wiser than we are.

So much longing. So many lives filled with longing. It's what stories? all our stories? are made of. And what is longing made of except hope?

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or "sweetness.

All those films in which the woman doesn't get her man, those films of yearning unsatisfied, hearts unappeased. You like them; I've liked them too. But I'll tell you what: try belonging body and soul to a man who will never belong to you; see how well you like those films then. "Don't ask for the moon-we have the stars!" ... "Pardon me saying so, but fuck the fucking stars!

The sight made her ache. How can I not touch you? she thought hopelessly, and then she was doing it, her fingers on his wrist. He didn't jump or even look at her, just stopped writing. Neither one of them moved, nothing moved, and the whole thing lasted three or four seconds at most, but when Pen took her hand away and started to breathe again, her chest hurt, as though she had been holding her breath for a very long time.

Soldiers in the heat of battle; death-row prisoners; explorers stranded in deserts, jungles, on mountaintops; anyone sick or lost or just tired and bewildered: we all wanted our mothers.

When it comes to Clare, sometimes, the past isn't past. The past can get as present as any present ever was, so near that I feel its breath.

Maybe she would remember who he was, and maybe she would come back.

I have lost things I will never stop missing.

Still Dev missed him. Not all the time or even very often, but now and then, missing would hit Dev, throw him off balance, a sudden, undeniable ache to know his father, how his voice sounded, what his face did when he read the paper or looked at his son. And the missing wasn't fair; it wasn't earned. In fact, the missing, the searching, the imagining were so unfair that when you put them all together, they looked a lot like betrayal.

Like love was a habit you couldn't break.

It's just that without wanting to or trying to—and for years I was deliberately trying not to—I held on to love. Or it held on to me. Not active love; not love, the verb form. It was more just there, a small, unshakable thing, leftover, useless, as vestigial as wisdom teeth or a tailbone, but still potent enough so that when I heard his voice on the phone, my heart gave a tiny jump of hope that made me want to slap it.

You mean you're not on your way home?" asked Pen. Will could hear the joy in her voice. "Not unless you mean you," he told her. "I'm on my way to you.

since she and Marcus and her mother left, she's been close to obsessed with wanting

I'd figured out that a real life didn't mean attaining my heart's desire, but knowing it, meant not the satisfaction, but the longing. Knowing what you love and why, I found out, is as real as it gets.

I'd figured out that a real life didn't mean attaining my heart's desire, but knowing it, meant not in the satisfaction, but the longing. Knowing what you love and why, I found out, is as real as it gets.

Mi única locura fue esperar tantos años. Pero no me arrepiento. Hice lo que tenía que hacer. Lo maté así porque yo quería que sufra, que tenga una muerte fea. Quería vengarme por todo lo que me hizo. Lo peor es que yo me conozco: si no lo mataba, me iba a quedar con él, porque yo lo quería, me parece.