Quotes About Longing

I used to sit with the bedside lamp on, reading for about two hours after Andrea had gone to sleep, until my eyes were dry and sore, always seeking and never quite finding, but with that feeling of being tantalizingly close.

Want,' she told her, in a measured tone, 'is

There was absolutely nothing wrong with this life, but she felt inside her a craving for other things, other lives, other possibilities. She felt like she was still in the air, not ready to land.

I miss you,' she said into the air, as if the spirits of every person she'd loved were in the room with her.

I miss you,' she said into the air, as if the spirits of every person she'd loved were in the room with her.

I miss you", she said into the air, as if the spirits of every person she'd loved were in the room with her.

For years now I had convinced myself that the sadness of the memories weighed more and lasted longer than the moments of happiness themselves.

I wish I were a rose...that you might wear me for a buttonhole bouquet on your journey. But I wonder...would you throw the rose away when it faded?

And yet she did understand: not only the lengths to which a mother might go to protect her child; but the impulsive acts to which a heart, disturbed by years of longing, might be prone.

Don't fret, dreamy spinning ones with water falling from your faces. It's us you're waiting for and we're coming.

Nor does the being hungry prove that we have bread.

Venid a mí en mis sueños, y luego durante el día estaré bien otra vez. Porque entonces la noche más que pagará el anhelo desesperado del día.

Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again. For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day.

Vain is the effort to forget. Some day I shall be cold, I know, As is the eternal moonlit snow Of the high Alps, to which I go-- But ah, not yet, not yet! Vain is the agony of grief. 'Tis true, indeed, an iron knot Ties straitly up from mine thy lot, And were it snapt--thou lov'st me not! But is despair relief?

All this and heaven too.

the more we see of God's glory in his works the more we shall desire to see.

Let us endeavour then, by reading, contemplation, and prayer, to know as much of heaven as we can, that we may be desiring and longing to be there.

The fundamental difference between pleasure and satisfaction is that pleasure cannot be sustained beyond the activity producing it.

We need. To need is to be human.

Right when you find yourself not thinking about her at all, there she'll be, right at the end of the story to fuck with your head one last time." She

And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the little yellow cottage more than she loved any place on earth. but she was through with it except in her memories.

Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe.

Jack la miró largamente. ¿Cómo había imaginado que podría vivir sin ella? Durante todo el infernal trayecto por la autopista cubierta de agua en un Jeep robado, mejor dicho, prestado, había ensayado lo que iba a decir, había pensado cómo iba a abordarla. Una vez allí, en la misión más arriesgada de toda su vida, solo podía hacer una cosa.

he's a dead man the minute he falls for Daisy the siren. Gatsby "run[s] faster, stretch[es] out [his] arms farther," until, propelled by all that yearning, he leans too far out toward Daisy's dock, falls into the Sound, and drowns.