Quotes About Longing

It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul.

I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe!

What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?

Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul

Cuesta mucho luchar contra el deseo del corazón; todo lo que quiere obtener, lo compra al precio del alma.

Its women shall be the voluptuaries not of pleasure but of pain, doomed to hunt for what they least dare to find.

I long to be musical in body and mind. I want style, consort. Not the little mental squirts as if through the ticker-tape of the mind.

The old love was slowly metamorphosed into admiration, just as his physical longing for her (so bitter at first) turned into a consuming and depersonalized tenderness which fed upon her absence instead of dying from it.

How do you spell love in Alexandria?' he said at last, softly. 'That is the question. Sleeplessness, loneliness, bonheur, chagrin -- I do not want to harm or annoy her, but I feel that somehow, somewhere, she must need me as I need her.

As lonely and sad as I am today, your return will cause a new birth in me.

I miss the comfort in being sad.

Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.

Never shall my sad eyes again behold Those pleasures which my thoughts did then unfold.

What are you so sad about? We're going to know him for the rest of our lives.

Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.

Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back

You don't have to be sad to miss someone and wish they were still in your life.

That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.

I don't want you to cook my bread, I don't want you to make my bed. I don't want you to because I'm sad and blue, I just want to make love to you.

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

I'd rather sing a sad song than eat.

When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on

The tears of my eyes watered your heart but failed to evoke a response from the barren grounds of what beats in you. They will still come and I will welcome them because they contain you.