Quotes About Longing

desperately wanting to define what's in the air between us but unwilling to make the first move

Underscoring all of this is Leo—his constant presence in my mind, along with the troubling realization that I deeply associate him with the city and vice versa. So much so, in fact, that leaving New York feels an awful lot like leaving him.

But it's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.

I've chased you in my dreams for a long time now

and then realize it's not Peter I miss, but the idea of what I once thought we shared.

O inferno é a ausência das pessoas de quem temos saudade.

I felt as though i were being shown a photo of someone well loved, and long dead. I didn't want to be reminded of what I no longer seemed to have.

real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.

Ma's in Room still, I want her here so much much much.

Sitting watching Anna's eyelids flicker some hours later, Lib found herself longing for the sleep she should have had that afternoon. But this was an old battle, and like any nurse, she knew she could win if she spoke to herself severely enough. The

I didn't forget a day of you either.

You can have this kind of love. You can have it. You just grab it. Of course the problem with having that love is that you can lose it, too.

No one ever loved you like him. And no one ever took it away so completely. But it's here. Look around.

He was a super shiny boy and I liked the shape of him. Under the blanket. In the shower. I liked his shadow on the street and his imprint on the sofa. I hated the smell of hair gel on his head, but I loved it on the pillow. I love the smell of losing someone.

You could be together forever, but one of you is going to have to go first. I want it to last. I love him and I want it to stay.

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. ... Male strength -- the desire to be cradled again? ... I'd love someone to pick me up and carry me off. Frightening. Lindsay assures me I'd start to fidget after a while. She's such a comfort.

You guys looking for my dad? People are always, like, looking for him, and he's never around. Daddy is so not here. And I mean that literally and spiritually.

Why no aggressive action? Foaly squirmed in a harness built for two-legged creatures. Oh yes, why no aggressive action? How I long for aggressive action. I live for aggressive action! thundered Orion squeakily which was unusual. Oh, how I pray that dragon will turn 'round that I may smite it. Smite it with what? wandered Foaly Your secret birthmark? Don't you mock my birthmark, which I may or may not have.

Miss me? Bet you did ... so would I.

Squib could allow that he missed having a daddy, even a fake one, so long as he kept that thought inside his own head. Even if that daddy did drink beer like it was keeping him alive instead of the opposite. Even if he did raid Momma's coffee can for change and spend it on lottery scratch tickets.

If their way was a blind alley, let us not deny them the longing for liberty and justice which moved them.

In their way the brigands, dressed in torn peasant costume with Bourbon rosettes, or in more gorgeous apparel, were avengers and champions of the people. If their way was a blind alley, let us not deny them the longing for liberty and justice which moved them.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

we can never have enough of that which we really don't want