Quotes About Longing

Because inside we still carry the dreams of what could have been, of what should have been, of what we wish could still be. This doesn't mean we aren't content. We are content, but the romantic longings of our girlhood have never entirely left us. It's like Yen-Yen said all those years ago: 'I look in the mirror and I'm surprised by what I see.' I look in the mirror and still expect to see my Shanghai-girl self- not the wife and mother I've become.

Lying next to her, looking at her face in the moonlight, feeling the delicate weight of her small hand on my cheek, listening to her breathing deepen, I wondered how could I make her love me the way I longed to be loved.

Più a lungo dura la notte, più i sogni si fanno capricciosi.

For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me – as a girl and later as a woman – to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.

Okay, try this on for size, Tall, Dark and Handsome. I won't be born for almost seven hundred hundred years. How's that strike you?

He hesitated, as if wrestling with the desire to cross the space between us and kiss me until I admitted I was just a tiny bit in love with him too. But he didn't. He didn't.

I loved you before I even knew I loved you, he told me once.

She just wanted to love and to be loved. She just didn't know what love looked like

Something about her called away a piece of him, and it floated through the air and she breathed it in, and it was forever lost to her.

When my father died, I waited for a haunting. I prayed for one. But he never came; I think he would have if he could.

Is there anyone dearer than the children of people you love, especially when you don't have your own?

I know she was in love with a ghost. She was haunted, waiting for that man to come home to her and rescue her from the one he had become.

How can you desire someone who hurts you? How can you miss him so much your body aches? Maybe not him, the man he actually was, but the man I thought he was. We cling to our ideas of people, don't we? We hold on tight even when all evidence points to something else.

She raced for him, propelled by the strength of a thousand regrets.

Find what you want. I will find you.

It's hard to give up the being together with someone.

It was as simple as that. Once he had yearned for choice. then, when he had had a choice, he had made the wrong one: the choice to leave. And now he was starving. But if he had stayed... His thoughts continued. If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways. He would have lived a life hungry for feelings, for color, for love.

And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone.

have starved in other ways. He would have lived a life hungry for feelings, for color, for love.

I wish I could have a cupcake

Boy, said Anastasia, you know what I wish? I wish that everybody who loved each other would die at exactly the same time. Then nobody would ever have to miss anyone. Well, said her father slowly, it just doesn't work that way. It just doesn't seem to work that way very often.

If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways. He would have lived a life hungry for feelings, for color, for love.

There could be love, Jonas whispered.

He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. But he did not know how to get there.