Quotes About Longing

I remember how when I felt lonely, I would whisper her name— our name—and hold my breath, waiting for an echo, certain that it would come someday.

For you a thousand times over. . . Dostet darum. I love you.

He caminado mucho y desde muy lejos para ver si eres tan bello en la realidad como lo eras en mis sueños.

I finally had what I'd wanted all those years. Except now that I had it, I felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.

it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place. But

This fragile, trembling little glimpse of how it could have been between us. All it will beget is regret, I tell myself, and what good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.

time stretched and contracted depending on Tariq's absence or presence.

Mammy was soon asleep, leaving Laila with dueling emotions: reassured that Mammy meant to live on, stung that she was not the reason. She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.

I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into the humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills

What he yearned for was his old life. What

Il tempo è come il fascino. Non ne hai mai quanto vorresti.

always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.

I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you'd love to be a hundred years old. I didn't know. I didn't know that you were ashamed of me.

I tried to conjure Ali's frozen face, to REALLY see his tranquil eyes, but time can be a greedy thing - sometimes it steals all the details for itself.

You're afraid, Nana, she might have said. You're afraid that I might find the happiness you never had. And you don't want me to be happy. You don't want a good life for me. You're the one with the wretched heart.

But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting…

The loss was hard on Hassan—it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.

Per tu ho faria mil vegades més.

I wish you remembered Homs as I do, Marwan.

of you ask me for more. It's late, and we have a long day of travel ahead of us, Pari, you and I. You will need your sleep tonight. And you too, Abdullah.

Setiap wanita membutuhkan seorang suami. Meskipun sang suami menjadikan lagu dalam dirinya berhenti mengalun.

You're afraid, Nana, she might have said. You're afraid that I might find the happiness you never had. And you don't want me to be happy. You don't want a good life for me. You're the one with the wretched heart.

Idris thinks longingly of when they were small and helpless, so wholly dependent on him.

Pentru tine aÈ™ face-o È™i de o mie de ori! a zis. Apoi mi-a zâmbit cu zâmbetul lui de Hassan È™i a disp?rut dup? colÈ›. Nu aveam s?-i mai v?d zâmbetul neruÈ™inat, decât dou?zeci È™i È™ase de ani mai târziu, într-o fotografie È™tears?, f?cut? cu un Polaroid.