Quotes About Longing

The blues is just another name for not having any place

It is a rare thing to be granted your heart's desire.

Exilatul nu poate uita - si trebuie, prin urmare, sa simuleze - arsita uscata din Desh, fostul si viitorul lui taram, in care pana si Luna este fierbinte si picura ca niste lipii proaspete, date cu unt. O, cat de dor ii e de acea parte a lumii, unde soarele si luna sunt de genul masculin, dar lumina lor dulce si fierbinte are intotdeauna nume femeiesti!...

Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.

He needed her so badly, to reassure himself of his own existence

AÅŸk her ÅŸey deÄŸilse, hiçbir ÅŸeydir.

an egotist addicted to obsequiousness and sycophancy who nevertheless longed for a different world, a world in which he could find exactly that man who was his equal, whom he could meet as his brother, with whom he could speak freely, teaching and learning, giving and receiving pleasure, a world in which he could forsake the gloating satisfactions of conquest for the gentler yet more taxing joys of discourse. Did such a world exist? By what road could it be reached?

You need something more from me—something I wasn't able to give you before.

I have nothing to make me feel good, except for you. The last thing I want to do is turn you into my new drug of choice.

We praise the strength, the patience and the longing of the people who did not stop thinking of freedom and democracy in these dark times

But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.

Nearly unable to bear the thought of how much he needed her quiet strength, he closed his eyes and leaned his forehead against the cold glass.

I loved him so much, loved his fearlessness, his strength, even the ambition that would someday take him away from me.

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

What you are longing for is longing for you.

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

This thing that haunts you, that never seems satisfied, the cravings in your soul that you are unable to satiate through all the success that the world can bring this is your soul screaming for God.

There are few qualities more vital than a strong yearning. That desire to reach a little farther, to be a little more, yearning...for a piece of something greater, can often make all the difference.

We are always in a hurry to be happy, M. Danglars; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.

Dove troverete, ditemi, un amore simile al mio, un amore che né il tempo, né la lontananza, né la disperazione possono spegnere; un amore che si accontenta di un nastro smarrito, di uno sguardo perduto, di una parola sfuggita?

EÈ™ti cu mult mai presus decât dragostea mea ca s? îndr?znesc s?-È›i vorbesc, È™i totuÈ™i de câte ori te v?d simt nevoia s?-È›i spun c? te ador, fiindc? atunci când nu te mai v?d, ecoul propriilor mele cuvinte îmi alin? inima.