Quotes About Longing

When I think what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love?—Marry him; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

As you came through the wood I saw that nothing else mattered. I called. I wanted to live and have my chance of joy.

Me besarás?— dijo Maurice, mientras los gorriones despertaban sobre ellos en los aleros, y lejos, en los bosques, los palomos comenzaban a arrullarse.

Cuando el amor se desvanece se le recuerda no como amor, sino como algo distinto. Bienaventurados los ignorantes que lo olvidan por completo, y no son conscientes de los anhelos y de los absurdos del pasado, de las largas conversaciones sin propósito.

You've not been content to dream, as we have.

for man is so made that he cannot remember long without a symbol; he wished there was a society, a kind of friendship office, where the marriage of true minds could be registered.

Success followed as it will, when one longs to fail. --Bunny

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

Now the two of us here in the dark have let the fire die slowly down, and it's your body I want to see with the curtains open and the half-moon pressed against the window—your long pale body smoldering on top of the sheet, glowing beside mine while we warm ourselves again in the heavy world of matter, catching fire at the fire we make of our lives. —Eamon Grennan, from "On Fire," Relations: New & Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 1998)

still remembering all the things Jamie Dean had told me on the phone. "I don't know what the feeling of love is really like. I don't know if I have ever been in love, but if I have, it must have been with you because I never felt that feeling before you and I have never felt that feeling after you.

bir insan bir insanda ba?ka bir hayat?n kap?s?n? görünce a??k olur. ne mutluluktur öte yandaki, ne de tad?yla merakland?ran bir ac?. a?k diye buna denir: bir insan bir insanda tekinsiz bir ev görür. insan yaras? yaras?na denk geleni seviyor demek ki.

Charlie had always been a sucker for this part... the first days. The days when you let yourself believe the lies... Not just that there's someone who truly sees you... truly understands you... to your soul... but that you even want them to. That's the sweetest lie, the one you tell yourself.

Hi Cosmos, How is your Milky Way? I miss you.

And yet I was filled with grief. In the beginning of all love there is grief, because at that moment you're closest to the ghost of parting. You know how easily it could all slip away, how easily it could evaporate into eternal, never-to-be-consummated longing.

We are apart so that I will know the joy of being with you again. Take care of yourself, wherever you are. Take care of yourself, wherever you are.

Thou wast that all to me, love,For which my soul did pine—A green isle in the sea, love,A fountain and a shrine,All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,And all the flowers were mine.

Sometimes I'm terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-- It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

This is life's sorrow: That one can be happy only where two are; And that our hearts are drawn to stars Which want us not.

The old grim story so many times enacted – for the poor human race has always longed for a Redeemer to take up the burdens that human people themselves alone must carry.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.

Zane," I whispered breathlessly, knowing it was wrong, but powerless to stop myself. "If things were different... if you were alive... and I was alive-" "Yes," he said immediately, interrupting me. He leaned in closer. His voice was no more than a whisper. "Absolutely, yes. Don't ever doubt it, Kail.

Kiss me yet once again, the last, long kiss, Until I draw your soul within my lips And drink down all your love.