Quotes About Longing

No one can see the point where the longing is the most concentrated.

If a person is missing someone for a very long time, he can imagine seeing the one that he misses.

If fucking were graceful,desire an alibi.

I slept lightly, expecting Fern to awaken during the night missing her truelove. Not that I wanted Fern to be heartbroken. I didn't want her to love someone all her life and then not love or want them at all.

In me there are two souls, alas, and their Division tears my life in two. One loves the world, it clutches her, it binds Itself to her, clinging with furious lust; The other longs to soar beyond the dust Into the realm of high ancestral minds. (lines 1102–7)

Moments when you realize your heart is empty and the one who could fill it, never will.

Ab ke ham bichhde to kabhi khabon me mile Jis tarah sukhe hue phool kitabon me mile

Na puchh ai hamnashin hamse shabe furqat ki betabi Alam hai darde hasrat hai fana hai ahozzari hai

A verse is considered a ghazal when it is written recollecting someone whose mere sight not only induces but also charges the mind and heart with an extraordinary feeling of cupidity, passion and lust.

We were born with hearts that require constant, unconditional love, and Jesus is the only Person who accepts us regardless of our behavior. However, if we do not allow Christ to satisfy our longing, then Satan will quickly promote destructive substitutes, especially sexual excitement. He wants to make us dependent upon anything other than Jesus.

Falling in love with Renee was not the kind of thing you walk away from in one piece. I had no chance. She put a hitch in my git-a-long.

Silly Love Songs" wanders on for a bizarre and very unpop six minutes. Paul was passionate about music-making, which is different from being passionate about music.

The things we used to do together were alien now. Lonesome star, shine on.

The real high point of his film career is The Hunger

You've Really Got a Hold on Me" and "Money (That's What I Want)," but for me "Please Mr. Postman" houses them both. It's another blizzard of oh yeah screams—in America "Please Mr. Postman" was on The Beatles' Second Album alongside "She Loves You" and "I'll Get You," making it a concept album about the word "yeah.

The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when you're standing outside. You'll warm up once you get used to the cold. Except after you've been out there for awhile, you feel the warmth draining out of you and you realize the opposite is happening; you're getting colder and colder, as the body heat you brought outside with you seeps out of your skin. Instead of getting used to it, you get weaker the longer you endure it.

She didn't want to be in their club. Didn't want to learn how to be apart from the one person she longed to see every day.

We fear the thing we want the most.

Sometimes I wish that I could sing or dance or paint or compose symphonies or build cathedrals to express somehow what all of this means to me. I wish I were a priest or a robin or a child or a sunset.

Our longing for community seems to be a part of the image of the One Who made us, a part of the divine image whispered into us when we were whispered into being in the first place.

A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse below and dreams of home.

When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone.

No matter what you do in life, a part of you still sits at a curbside, still hearing the drumbeat of a distant parade, still waiting for it to turn the corner.

Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.