Quotes About Longing

Cuanto más deseamos algo, mayor es nuestro miedo a no conseguirlo.

Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.

There can be great depths of love that are not reciprocated.

Sorrow beyond dreams.

Funny how you can live your whole life waiting and not know it... Waiting for your real life to begin. Maybe the most real thing the end. To realize when it's too late. I know now that I loved him more than anything on earth or off of it.

He heard a loon call, piercing and forlorn, and it poured into his spirit like cool water. It was a sad cry and he realized as he listened how barren the river had felt in the days without it. Why was a wail that seemed so lost and lonely so…what? Essential and lovely.

Jasper's weight on my leg an aching absence.

Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In the midst of it and desperate. Because knowing it will end, because everything does. End.

felt bad but couldn't help myself. It was Jasper, not just. It was all of it. Was this hell? To love like this, to grieve from fifteen feet, an uncrossable distance?

Was this hell? To love like this, to grieve from fifteen feet, an uncrossable distance?

He would have given his own life gladly to hear her sing to him one more time.

My favorite poem, the one by Li Shang-Yin: When Will I Be Home? When will I be home? I don't know. In the mountains, in the rainy night, The Autumn lake is flooded. Someday we will be back together again. We will sit in the candlelight by the West window. And I will tell you how I remembered you Tonight on the stormy mountain.

He had been looking forward to a further insight into the life of this woman he was so deeply in love with and still knew so little about.

In our unconsciousness we take credit where no credit is due, oblivious to the real source of everything we pretend is ours—the sacred origin not just of religion but also of everything else, of science and technology, education and law, of medicine, logic, architecture, ordinary daily life, the cry of longing, the excruciating ache of the awakening love for wisdom.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.

Now you have gone off because you long for your fatherís house. But why have you stolen my gods?”

And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.

Then you told your servants, ëBring him down to me so that I can see him for myself.í

Then Moses said, “Please show me Your glory.”

Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?

We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.