Quotes About Longing

4 de noviembre Esta noche, por primera vez, he soñado con ella; estaba acostada pero nada enferma, con su camisón rosa comprado en un supermercado...

I love you is in my head; but I imprison it behind my lips. I do not divulge. I say silently to who is no longer or is not yet the other: *I keep myself from loving you*

A romantic striving for an impossible ideal.

I am so tired. It is so long. I want to see Hamilton.

That bust I can never forget,' one young visitor remembered, 'for the old lady always paused before it in her tour of the rooms and, leaning on her cane, gazed and gazed, as if she could never be satisfied.

John "was still her hero after all the years.

He never seemed to take great pleasure in his accomplishments, and for the rest of his life, he craved a restful but elusive peace.

Despair and idleness are dangerous companions in any culture, and it was inevitable that the young would search for a hero who could voice their longing for change and provide a focus for their rage.

and I'll know that this is what you live for - to hear someone say. Let's go home, to hear someone you love call your name.

Will and I will walk along the beach in Gloucester, and I'll hear him shout over the wind, Cameron, let's go home, and I'll know that this is what you live for --to hear someone say, Let's go home, to hear someone you love call your name.

And Josh wanted to tell her what he knew: that love might look like a shore but turn out to be a desert island, where you roamed alone, talking to yourself, trying to crack open coconuts with your shoe. So thirsty you drank the salt water. So hungry you ate the sand.

You like being in love with someone who's not going to love you back." She opened her eyes. He looked at her. "Why would I like that?" she asked. He shrugged. "I don't know.

They say there's peace if you can relinquish desire. For me desire's absence has only ever left a dull persistent ache.

A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish.

At that moment I knew I would miss her forever. I felt empty. I had lost something I never knew I had.

A small, sad smile spread across the woman's face. "I would love to go visit Dendoncker. Believe me. I'd be there in a heartbeat. But we can't. It's impossible." "No such thing as impossible. Just inadequate preparation.

G. K. Chesterton once said of Charles Dickens, "Dickens didn't write what people wanted. Dickens wanted what people wanted.

He really was perfect. If only he was perfect for me.

But I would do it all again, every bit of it, I would lose him again just to have him again for an hour, for a minute, for even a second. I would do it all again just to see his face.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

I have traveled the world. I have searched high and low. I have found nothing that satisfied my mind, my heart, and the deepest longings of my soul like Jesus does. He is not only the way the truth and the life; He is personal to me. He is my way, and my truth, and my life--just as He can be for anyone who reaches out to Him.

My weary old ground was broken and watered, and what sprang up was a generalized longing.

Nadine," said my voice. "You know how people daydream about the Bahamas, with the beaches and palm trees? I don't know if they really do, no doubt it's mostly advertising, but you're the island I think about.

And who doesn't long for the door in the air.