Quotes About Longing

I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and dun, Steals, like a star, my Baby's face. .... I will take up my work once more, As if I had never laid it down. Who will dream that I ever wore, In triumph, motherhood's sacred crown? .... Nevertheless, the way is long, And tears leap up in the light of the sun. I'd give my world for a cradle-song, And a kiss from Baby—only one.

What woman would not gladly perform a painful pilgrimage, if so she could but find her Jove, and then fall down and worship him! Alas! the actual Jupiters are very scarce.

Now he watched the two of them, joined together against a troubled world, and he knew the lack in his own life.

China doll?" Wade. He spoke softly, coaxing as if she were a timid animal in need of taming. "Where are you, girl? I've come for you." His voice got stronger then faded as he moved around their cabin. "Where are you, doll?

If you live to be a hundred, I would want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I wouldnt have to spend one day without you!

You don't want to love--your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.

They say that time heals all wounds but all it's done so far is give me more time to think about how much I miss you.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

The heart wants what it wants or else it does not care.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.

If the only place that I can see that truly loved special someone is in my dreams then I want to sleep forever.

For whatever the reason being to be without that special someone, your only focus, the one that you truly loved and still love is to alter your life forever. No matter what, there's no getting away from it because 'it' is the person you loved and still love and think of all the time no matter what. It doesn't matter how many new people come into your life the gap will never close for that special someone, the one who was your only focus.

Trying to mentally bury strong loving feelings for someone who is no longer in your life and that you still truly love is like trying to hold a beach ball under water....just keeps surfacing.

The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.

You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces.

Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I'd be picking roses for a lifetime.