Quotes About Longing

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

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

One's only real life is the life one never leads.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

I want you now so awfully, No longer jealous-green, I bring myself as offering Up to the guillotine.

A word does not suppress This dryness spreading through, Dense air is emptiness For me without you.

O Lord, I know Thy blessing and I praise Thee, but it is the indescribable touch and enwheeling as Thy servant that I seek for— I know not what I seek for, but Thou knowest. How I long for Thee!

I am called to live in perfect relation to God so that my life produces a longing after God in other lives, not admiration for myself. Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God. God is not after perfecting me to be a specimen in His show-room; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He likes.

Lord, the range of Thy power, the touch of Thy grace, the breathing of Thy Spirit, how I long for these to bring me face to face with Thee; Lord, by Thy grace cause me to appear before Thee.

Whoever cannot believe and yet longs for it, whoever knows how miserable the Enlightenment is and yet cannot get rid of it, also knows what hell is. To be banished knowingly into unbelief.

I loved a girl once,' said he. 'Vorshula was her name. She has been lying in the graveyard of Seidewinkel six months now...

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

When a lovely flame dies,Smoke gets in your eyes.

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

A short absence is the safest.

So I can't live either without you or with you.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

Go on so! I don't reckon yu' know what you're sayin'. Yu' might as well ask fruit to stay green. If the way we are now can keep bein' enough for you, it can't for me. A pleasure to you, is it? Well, to me it is—I don't know what to call it. I come to yu' and I hate it, and I come again and I hate it, and I ache and grieve all over when I go. No! You will have to think of some other way than just invitin' me to keep green

The silence isn't so bad, till I look at my hands and feel sad. Because the spaces between my fingers are right where yours fit perfectly.

Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you.

But I found it wasn't so easy to just turn off a crush when I wanted to. I vaguely remembered some quote I'd read in English class about the flesh being willing, even when the spirit wasn't.