Quotes About Longing

Seigneur, il m'apparaît parfois que j'ai besoin de son amour pour vous aimer!

Pour moi, être aimé n'est rien, c'est être préféré que je désire.

Aujourd'hui que j'ose appeler par son nom le sentiment si longtemps inavoué de mon cÅ"ur.

Je voudrais mourir à présent, vite, avant d'avoir compris de nouveau que je suis seule.

joy is out there waiting for us, but it always wants to find the bed empty

All my life my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name." andre breton

and I longed for the rock isles and algae pools of my own land. We are part of our homes and I think there will always be a feeling of loss and ache within when we cannot long actively communicate with our own special places.

Il ne voulait penser qu'à elle, à Darka, comme si c'était pour la revoir qu'il lui fallait foncer à bord d'une vieille guimbarde dans les rues les plus cahoteuses de Lviv, secouer ses passagers pour les libérer de leurs calculs rénaux et aller ensuite la rejoindre, retrouver son guichet éclairé toute la nuit, rempart de lumière protégeant sa magicienne aux longs gants colorés.

The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise.

I have no appetite,' she sighed. 'Not for food, not for work. Not for anything.' I looked at her and wondered what I am except appetite.

In that light, across the field, is all I will never have. Next to me is all I will.

Love is a certain inborn suffering.

I feel restricted, my soul is restricted inside me, I need another living space.

All these searchings and hungerings and longings that are in your heart, I tell you, they are the drawings of the divine magnet, Christ Jesus.

Where there is not intense longing to be kept to the utmost from sinning, and to be brought into the closest possible union with the Saviour, the thought of being crucified with Him can find no entrance.

Do you love Christ? Do you long to be in Christ, and not like Him?

God's love, and I begin to long for God's love in a very different sense from which I have sought it so selfishly—as a comfort, a joy, a happiness, and a pleasure to myself. I will not learn it until I realize that "God is love," and to claim and receive it as an

Who on earth would not long to be fought for? Is this not the very heart of human existence, to be worth fighting for, worth losing everything for?

It is almost another kind of love, being loved. It is the same heat but from another room; it is the same sound but from a high window...

What Frank wrote: It's a summer day, and I want to be wanted more than anything in the world.

What do you call a guy who you're sleeping with --Let's say you do that for nine years, you make breakfast and have birthday parties and arguments and wear what he tells you to wear, for nine years, and you're nice to his friends, and he's always at your place, but you know all the time it can't go anywhere, he's going to find someone, it won't be you, that's agreed on from the start, he's going to find someone and marry him -- what do you call that guy?

Why didn't he say yes? Freddy's voice from the past: You want me to stay here with you forever? Why didn't he say yes?

No one has ever been hopelessly in love with me." "No," Carlos says. "You always gave them hope, didn't you?

Will Less ever again be so beloved?