Quotes About Longing

For me this sun, these meadows and these flowers are enough. But if they weren't enough, What I would want is a sun more sun than the sun, Meadows more meadows than these meadows, Flowers more flowers than these flowers— Everything more ideal than what it is, in the same way and same manner! That thing over there more there than it is!

Há momentos em que tudo cansa, até o que nos repousaria. O que nos cansa porque nos cansa; o que nos repousaria porque a ideia de o obter nos cansa.

as she watched her friend disappear down the sleepy street of dusty sunshine...

No existe fuego ni lozanía capaz de competir con lo que un hombre atesora en el fantasmagórico mundo de su corazón.

Si esto es verdad, debió de sentir que había perdido su antiguo mundo, su calor, y que había pagado un alto precio por vivir demasiado tiempo con un solo sueño.

still loved but deprived of grace

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them. They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage. The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience.

Two people can remain 'in love'—a phrase made practically useless by stinking romanticism—only if their common desire for each other unites in a greater desire for God—i.e., they do not become satisfied but more desirous together of the supernatural love in union with God.

The misery he had was a longing for home; it had nothing to do with Jesus.

The misery he had was a longing for home; it had nothing to do with Jesus. When the army finally let him go, he was pleased to think that he was still uncorrupted. All he wanted was to get back to Eastrod, Tennessee. The black Bible and his mother's glasses were still in the bottom of his duffel bag. He didn't read any book now but he kept the Bible because it had come from home. He kept the glasses in case his vision should ever become dim.

Il y a un moment, dans les séparations, où la personne aimée n'est déjà plus avec nous.

Neuken zegt mij niets meer. Mijn verlangen is te universeel, te permanent en te intens om er een bepaalde begeert op na te houden. Ik ga niet met vrouwen naar bed, maar ik doe als de dichter in jouw roman, ik verslind ze met mijn blik.

Es gibt einen Augenblick im Auseinandergehen, da ist die geliebte Person schon nicht mehr bei uns. Lehrjahre der Männlichkeit

From the moment I was a teenager, I wanted to be a father, wanted to be a family man.

It has long been a childhood dream of mine to have a farm.

My reading with RuPaul was actually, for me, on a personal level, one of my favorites and the most shocking. This is someone I've wanted to read for a long time and so when he was standing there I nearly fainted.

I was married for five years, and I definitely had that baby fever, which I think you should.

I would love to love Saul Bellow, but by page fifty of 'Herzog', something within me has wandered into another room.

I had such a close relationship with my dog, and my dog so filled the need in my life to have children that I just wanted Cathy to have that experience.

I've lived so frugally for so long. I have to have that financial security or the world feels out of control for me.

I'm in love with one woman. I've been in love with one woman for 31 years. She is the finest human being I have ever known.

If you like someone, even if its 2 A.M. and you've just finished work, then you get that lovely feeling where you want to see them.

I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They're just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

While writing, I'm always so happy in the middle of a book or finishing a book and really hate starting them, so I often think, 'I wish I had a really big book to write to which I could devote seven years of my life.'