Quotes About Longing

What do they find then, that this lover has committed the unpardonable error of not being able to exist—and they come down with a dummy in their arms. God's last round, shadow-boxing, that the heart may be murdered and swept into that still quiet place where it can sit and say: 'Once I was, now I can rest.

The doctor looked at her. "For the lover, it is the night into which his beloved goes," he said, "that destroys his heart; he wakes her suddenly, only to look the hyena in the face that is her smile, as she leaves that company.

I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

I have been loved," she said, "by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

Put your head in my pussy, my refrigerator where all the bees want to go, honey.

Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.

Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.

My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.

The past is more alive to her than the present, she realizes, and the thought is suffocating.

It took him years to realize it was the flirtation and admiration he craved, not the actual conquest.

Colgó, miró hacia el jardín, vio contra el muro los brotecitos verdes, duros como tomates jóvenes, y mientras miraba por la ventana, delante de las camelias al borde de la floración, se apoderó de ella una pena espantosa, una pena que le impedía moverse, que atravesaba el tiempo, que venía, le pareció, de muy lejos, de las horas vacías de la niñez, de una espera que nunca había cesado. Le cortó el aliento hasta tal punto que no podía respirar.

Longing on a large scale is what makes history.

It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.

All great literature is about longing. The same is true with music. People can buy anything they want or need at the mall or on line. But they cannot buy what they long for. That is where writers come in. We deliver what people long for.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while

He wishes Marie were here, that's all. No one who hasn't missed a beloved spouse will ever know the literal meaning of the word "heartache

Oh, Jatel, I am so used. Would you rid yourself of me?" the knight started to cry. Jatel slowly kissed the woman upon her forehead. To the Gods! how he loved her so. Not for the world entire, sire.

Instant gratification is not as good as that gratification which comes dripping slow, over the sere seasons.

And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love.

Stay More' is synonymous with 'Status Quo' in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain present.

Waiting for dusk and someone dear to come and whip him down the street, gently home

Nostalgia comes with the smell of rain

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.