Quotes About Longing

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

I'm amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach.

I think I just have a problem generally in life of wanting more of everything - more emotion, more drama, more glitz.

The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.

Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living

I'm born to be a father. And I've been looking forward to this all my life.

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.

I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting.

The insatiable thirst for everything that lies beyond, and that life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.

This life gets lonely when everybody wants something.

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living, I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.

You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

Everything squeezed, and warm cum spilled over Brent's hand, oozing onto the pillow beside his head. Brent bitterly lamented that he couldn't taste it, but no matter what had been said, one didn't swallow on the first date.

I thought I'd lost you, and I went nuts. Fucking nuts. I've spent the last few weeks trying to forget you. I wanted to convince myself that you were right. That we weren't right. I fucked Rachel, trying to forget you. It didn't work. I can't. The thought of being without you anymore is too depressing for words. Say you'll come home with me, Aaron.

sometimes I feel my heart fall to vague depths between words there are such spaces that I can't help but feel my heart fall between the pregnant pause of all you will not say and all i can not ask

Do what I will never do.

I heard the distant whistle of a passing train, and I wished I could get on it and go far away, to a place without struggle meetings, without class status, without confessions.

Maybe I should have known better, but I was a girl, and longing for someone to want me, so back then, the force of his personality, how much he wanted me, was new to me, was the trick and the power; it was dazzling.

I haven't been able to stop thinking of you. One way or another you were always out of reach... I think I'm in love with you... Actually no, that's not true. I know I am.