Quotes About Longing

I prayed she would haunt me forever. Just because she was dead, she had no right to desert me.

He couldn't make her understand that. She'd not been educated beyond simple words. To her the most bitter cup was to be cut away from life. To lose this amber hair, this crimson mouth, this molten flesh; to receive in its place the cold ash of oblivion. He repeated, "There's worse things. There's wishing you could die. There's wishing you could close your eyes and your memory forever.

Viola settled into the rocker, situated Goldie in the crook of her left arm and gave her the bottle. The chair quietly creaked out its ageless message of calm and comfort as she set it in motion. But it didn't reach the empty spot inside her.

For an hour, blended with all she could offer, something noble had been created which had nothing to do with the physical world. And from the turn of his throat, the warmth of his hair, the strong, slender sinews of his hands, something further; which had. Though she combed the earth and searched through the smoke of the galaxies there was no being she wanted but this, who was not and should not be for Philippa Somerville.

Could it possibly be that he yearned for some of the same things she yearned for? Love. Someone to call your own. Someone to share the joys and the sorrows of life.

It was the thought of him that I had problems with, I realised. The reality was really rather desirable.

He seems to have become a part of my life and I'm disappointed if I don't see him. If I get to the end of the day without seeing someone who reminds me of him, I feel as if a dull shadow has fallen over me.

Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?

They sicken of the calm that know the storm.

To be possessed is an admirable reason for possessing.

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane.

You don't understand,' I said. 'I need to be with her. With every fibre of my being I ache for her. I'm in love.' 'I do understand,' said Zoran. 'It was same for me with Mrs Zoran when I first meet her. But the feeling goes away after few hours.

All that was left within him longed to just make it right, to just somehow make it right again.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

But when you are engulfed in loss, how can you detach yourself in the transience of everything? How can I take a theoretically long view of things when every waking moment without Johannes is agony?

Glory: I look around at this world you're so eager to be a part of and all I see is six billion lunatics looking for the fastest ride out. Who's not crazy? Look around, everyone's drinking, smoking, shooting up, shooting each other, or just plain screwing their brains out 'cause they don't want 'em anymore. I'm crazy? Honey, I'm the original one-eyed chicklet in the kingdom of the blind, 'cause at least I admit the world makes me nuts.

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Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.

Yearning for sun and starlight, roses and winter, together.

I just hope that you miss me a little when Im gone.

I taste pain and regret in your sweat. Youve been waiting for me.

Hope youll forgive me, never meant wrong. Tried to be patient, but waited too long. But I wouldve came back.. But I wouldve came back for you.

Im on some Marvin Gay shit, a bunch of distant lovers.