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Quotes About Longing

Damn it, I love you, Mandy," he whispered. "God help me, I love you so much. I just wish I was good enough for you.
~ Rosanne Bittner
No diré con los otros que también me olvidaste. No ingresaré en el coro de los que te desprecian ni seguiré al ejército blasfemo. Si no existes yo te haré a semejanza de mi anhelo, a imagen de mis ansias.
~ Rosario Castellanos
And he thinks, God only knows exactly what that was, but it felt like my heart shouting. Some
~ Rose Tremain
She thought that perhaps what she longed to hear was that almost every life was arranged like this, around a void where love should have been and was not, and that her predicament was therefore an ordinary one.
~ Rose Tremain
Desear no es querer. Se desea lo que se sabe que no dura. Se quiere lo que se sabe que es eterno
~ Rousseau
Do you have everything you need? No. She needed blinders to keep from staring at him, and a box of tissue to wipe the drool. Throw in some steel armour for her heart and a fail-safe chastity belt, and then she'd be good to go.
~ Roxanne St. Claire
Because Lang was her fantasy on steroids and she wanted him. Bad.
~ Roxanne St. Claire
So who has more at stake? A young man trying to get laid with the least amount of white water before he ships off to his next assignment and has nothing but a memory of a nice month on the beach, or a family that desperately needs and wants old heartaches to disappear?
~ Roxanne St. Claire
Galatians 5), with which God longs to fill us, are the complete antithesis of the hard, unbroken spirit within us and presupposes that it has been crucified. Being broken
~ Roy Hession
uns fogem do amor e outros procuram com sofreguidão, mas no fim o que fica, em todos, é a mesma coisa, uma insuportável sensação de vazio.
~ Rubem Fonseca
These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Interessi e piaceri immediati non possono riempire tutta la vita di un uomo. [La luce che si spense]
~ Rudyard Kipling
threw his soul after his eye across the deep blue gulfs between range and range.
~ Rudyard Kipling
came because I wished to see thee—misguided by the Red Mist of affection.
~ Rudyard Kipling
I thought that if could bring back the memory, I could bring back the feeling, and I would know for the first time what I truly wanted for myself, and then I would go and find it. That was my plan. But memories are always of things lost and gone and never returning.
~ Russell Banks
but by spring, she had again yielded to the tug and tide of his mind, allowing its currents to carry her back across the continent and wash them up on the remote shores of his evergreen island..
~ Ruth Ozeki
I'm reaching through time to touch you...you're reaching back to touch me.
~ Ruth Ozeki
It's going to get dark," she said. "We better go back." She shifted and then knelt beside her dead pet, leaning down until her lips touched their ear. "Goodbye, my dear darling TAZ," she whispered. "I love you. You'll be with me forever." Benny watched, wishing once again that he were the dead ferret.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Missing things upset her. Missing price tags. Missing memories. Missing parts of her life.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Till I was back in your arms again." She had a nice voice, and I hummed along
~ Ruth Reichl
It was all very well to talk of absence making the heart grow fonder, but "out of sight, out of mind
~ Ruth Rendell
His passion she had expected, even his expertise, for a man of his years would not have been without women. She had even, in the long days of yearning, suspected his tenderness, which led him now to kiss her temples and the inner crook of her elbow with the same attention he gave to her lips and breasts. What she had not anticipated was that he would be vulnerable as well.
~ Ruth Wind
We wait for it, because we always wait for something that will be big, extraordinary and splendid, that will bring us great joy and fill us with pride while also reminding us that there exists something greater than locking and unlocking the office at the same hour, collecting chicks, flattering the boss, petty swindles, loveless embraces, downtime due to poor work coordination, the songs of Rinaldo Bali?ski, or vodka spilled on the table
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
Ahora miraréis, en la tiniebla, a los que nunca debisteis ver, y no a los que tanto ansiasteis conocer.
~ Sófocles