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Quotes About Longing

When you're younger you're so happy to get some good loving you convince yourself you're in love, can't live with out it, and chase the dick like a crack addict after the pipe, or chase the bad sex hoping something happened to the man over night and the next time it'll be good.
~ Jill Nelson
Every heart has a hidden treasure. A secret wish. A silent dream. A special goal to long for. No matter how distant it may seem.
~ Jill Wolf
God has created in man the desire for Himself and has offered Himself as the object of man's desire. He is the only One sufficient to fill the God-shaped hole within man's soul.
~ Jim Berg
Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through.
~ Jim C. Hines
You see, you just don't know I'm here to give you my heart And you want some fashion show
~ Jim Carroll
There's solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.
~ Jim Crace
I am excused, I think, for wondering if I am the only one alive this afternoon with no other living soul who wants to cling to me, no other soul who'll let me dampen her. The day has ended and the light has snuffed. I'm left to trudge into the final evening with nobody to loop their soaking hands through mine.
~ Jim Crace
It hurts to set you free, but you'll never follow me.
~ Jim Morrison
I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much.
~ Jimmy Smits
Her dread of fire was almost as strong as her fear of deep water. She wasn't so much afraid of dying as she was of pain. If they had to die, she just hoped it wouldn't hurt too much. Or for too long.
~ Jinx Schwartz
So now I was wine-less and new-book-less, which for me is a grievous state of affairs.
~ Jinx Schwartz
We sit silently in our living room. He watches the mute television screen and I watch him. The planes and ridges of his face are more familiar to me than my own. I understand that he wishes even more than I do that he still loved me.
~ Jo Ann Beard
I understand that he wishes even more than I do that he still loved me.
~ Jo Ann Beard
I haven't forgotten one second of how good it felt to hold you, but I wasn't the one who pulled away. You don't want me to be more, do you? I just keep pushing against your walls, and to tell you the truth, baby, my hands are starting to bleed. do you want me gone for good? Look at me, tell me to leave you alone, and I will. I swear I'll get in my truck, drive off, and never bother you again." --Tommy to Shea
~ Jo Davis
Grayson James, on the other hand,could give me a tongue-lashing of a different sort. A very welcome one.
~ Jo Davis
Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.
~ Jo Nesbo
I believe that Plato was correct in saying that our souls long for the Good, and that nobody chooses evil for themselves while recognizing that it is evil, though some may do it in ignorance.
~ Jo Walton
Están los libros que te enamoran o los que olvidas
~ Jo Walton
I want to run so much sometimes my body aches with longing more than the pain from my leg.
~ Jo Walton
Em Diadorim, penso também – mas Diadorim é a minha neblina...
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Moço! Toda saudade é uma espécie de velhice.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Toda saudade é uma espécie de velhice
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Pois, Mãe, então mar é o que a gente tem saudade?
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Mom put dense cheddar bread into a bag for a man who said this was his wife's favorite - he'd driven all the way from New Jersey to buy it because today was their anniversary. Several women in the store jabbed their husbands on hearing this. I hung my head - Peter Terris wouldn't cross the street to buy me a Twinkie.
~ Joan Bauer