Quotes About Longing

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you.

All I wanted was this place of glory and things that can never be to be.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

It was not so much that I longed for death as that I didn't long for life.

Sex] is only a mirage, floating in shimmering mockery before the bulging eyes of middle-aged men as they stumble with little whimpers toward the double bed, that somewhere there is a person that will evoke from them sensations of which they dimly dream they are capable.

I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.

Vos larmes sont douces et me touchent. Je vous abandonne parce que je ne songe plus à vos seins dans mes rêves. J'ai vu d'autres visages. Nos cœurs sont des affamés. Notre esprit ne connaît pas le repos. La vie est belle à proportion qu'elle est féroce, comme nos proies.

What we learn from the story of Adam and Eve is simple. What we can have is never what we want. And when we can have what we wanted we want something else. It's human nature in a single luminous story. Our sin. Our fall. Our problem.

Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.

destiny, n. I know this word so close to my heart that it hurts.

Gains for all our losses There are gains for all our losses There are balms for all our pains But when youth the dream departs It takes some thing from our hearts And never comes again We are stronger and are better Under manhood's sterner reign Still we feel that some thing sweet Followed youth with flying feet And will never come again. Some thing beautiful has vanished And we sigh for it in vain We behold it every where---- On the earth and in the air---- But it never comes again.

Every time he glances at me I feel it just as surely as if he has reached out and run his finger along my soul. It is all I can do not to smile at the sheer wonder of it.

Do you need anything before I go? I want you to return my wits, I long to say.

Are you the one named Alyse? For he calls that name in his sleep." "No, that is his beloved sister, dead these past three years." The depth of my disappointment that it is not my name he calls takes me completely by surprise. "Ah," the old nun says sympathetically, as if she somehow knows what I am feeling. "Then perhaps you are Sybella. That is the name he asks for when he is awake.

I'm so tired of being lonely,she thought. In so tired of never going out, of never being with a boy,off never having a boy care about me.

Votre désir sera toujours plus fort que votre intelligence et votre instinctive prudence. Vous êtes une enfant gâtée qui n'hésite pas à prendre le jouet d'une autre même si, une fois en votre possession, le jouet vous semble moins beau. Vous voulez tout, Léa, et tout de suite

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us

No loss is felt more keenly than the loss of what might have been. No nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed.

Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.

No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed.

I love the idea of homeland, but not the actual return to one.

I was always alone, Doc, solitary whether I wished to be or not, ever since I could remember I wished to be lost in another, thought that somehow I could disappear into that heart of yours, take walks within your veins, wander through the bones of you. You had friends, Satan said, you loved and were loved, you must not forget that, at least not that. But did I allow anyone in, I asked Satan, and he said, Did you, does anyone?

Nessuna perdita viene avvertita più profondamente della perdita di ciò che sarebbe potuto essere. Nessuna nostalgia fa male quanto la nostalgia per le cose che non sono mai esistite.