Quotes About Longing

And though he has watched a decent age pass by, a man will sometimes still desire the world.

All he thinks while he studies pearlescent pigeons is this: I wish I knew how… I wish I knew… I ain't ever gonna, but I wish I knew how it felt – (-to be free).

I felt I couldn't lose anything else, but just then I realized I already had: I'd lost the hope that I would ever be loved in just that way again.

You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.

You can feel like he wants to own you,-not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having.

You don't see him again. Sometimes you worry that he loved you better than any man ever has or will--even if it had nothing to do with you. Even now, he is every blue blazer getting into a cab, every runner along the river, every motorcycle coming and going.

He knew what it was like to love one who did not--or could not--love you back. But he'd had no choice. None of them did.

I suppose I am a glutton for punishment really, voluntarily attending a wedding to watch the love of my life marry another woman.

I think there are plenty of people out there, men and women both, who have pined over someone who is unattainable — only to have their heart broken time and again.

I miss that. I want...I need things to go back to normal.

I wanted to kill someone and I wanted to die and I wanted to run as far and as fast as I could because she was never coming back. She had fallen off the face of the earth and she was never coming back.

You. I've spent my life waiting for you.' -Keenan

She wanted something she didn't have words for- peace, numbness, something.

I still dream that it was you. No matter how many times I've looked, in my dreams it's always been you who were meant to be my queen.

That's what the court needs-a happy king, a king who can't stop dreaming of being lost in someone who wants to be just as lost. Tell me you'll let me get lost in you.

They've been stealing mortals away for centuries, but they can't have you.

Love ans desire aren't the same

She couldn't breath around the pain in her chest. "Tell me I'm the only one.

You know its more than that. I know now that it was right that I didn't find my queen all these years. Waiting for you was worth everything that I thought I couldn't endure.

One hundred eighty days, Aislinn. Seth's been gone for one hundred eighty days, and I've watched you try to pretend it doesn't hurt for every one of them. Can't I try to make you happy?

I love you," he said. Icicles formed on his skin as she stared at him for several heartbeats. "Do you suppose that changes anything?" "I want it to." He knelt at her feet, but didn't even dare touch her hand. "Don, I want it to meant everything. It should.

The devil didn't tempt with easy rewards; he tempted with the things one wanted the most.

He wanted to wrap his arms around her and kiss away her uncertainty. But if he did that she would bolt. So he brushed stray hairs that had fallen out of her ponytail off her face instead. Ignored how soft the strands felt against his fingers. Pretended his pulse wasn't stampeding like a herd of bison on the plain.

No one wants to see you leave. Their stomachs will miss you. I'll miss you.