Quotes About Longing

If this was so, I was sunk, for by now I was more in love than I could stand, as if some mineral had got into my veins and arteries and I ached, flesh and bones, the way you will on the verge of the grippe.

I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want.

Unrequited love. Nowadays called hysterical dependency.

I'm sure I've got that part of the Aristophanic sex-myth straight. With the help of Eros we go on, each of us, looking for his missing half. Ravelstein was in real earnest about this quest, driven by longing. Not everyone feels that longing, or acknowledges it if he does feel it. In literature Antony and Cleopatra had it, Romeo and Juliet had it. Closer to our own time Anna Karenina and Emma Bovary had it, Stendhal's Madame de Rênal in her simplicity and innocence had

I don't think the struggles of desire can ever be won. Ages of longing and willing, willing and longing, and how have they ended? In a draw, dust and dust.

The free countries are curiously lethargic about their freedom. The credit of revolution is strong in Western Europe, while capitalism, especially in its hated American form, is held to be dying. Many exult over its approaching death. Tired of old evils, they long for the new thing and will not be happy until they've had it. Baudelaire writes, in one of his journals, that life is a hospital in which patient believes that he will recover if he is moved to another bed.

I want a love that makes me need to change my cell phone calling plan To something allows me to talk to her longer 'cause in all honesty, I want to avoid one of them high cell phone bill type loves And I want a love that makes me regret how small my hands are I mean the lines on my palms don't give me enough time To love you as long as I'd like to type love.

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

it is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish;

Keep in mind that disapproving of Trump's style and personality is a social requirement for people who long for a more civil world. Effectiveness is a separate issue from persuasive skill.

To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.

I often feel that way, I would like to open one of my veins, to bring me eternal freedom.

I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing.

No obstante, si tú te alejases de su lado, sentirían... ¿cuánto tiempo sentirían el vacío que tu pérdida dejaría en sus existencias?

Sólo Dios sabe cuánto me cuesta mirar y remirar tantos encantos, sin atreverme a extender mis manos hacia ella. Apoderarse de lo que se ofrece a nuestra vista y nos embelesa, ¿no es un instinto propio de la humanidad? ¿No se esfuerza el niño por coger cuanto le gusta? Y yo..?

Ho tante cose in me, e ciò che sento per lei divora tutto; ho tante cose, e senza di lei non ho più nulla.

Why are you here, Katrina dear, In daylight clear, At your lover's door? [3685] No, no! When, It will let in, A maid, and then, Let out a maid no more!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Alas that the friend of my youth* has gone—alas that I ever knew her. I might say to myself, you are a fool, you are searching for something which is not to be found on earth. But I found her, I felt the heart and the generous soul of her in whose presence I felt myself to be more than I was because I was everything I could be.

Reda-mi atunci acele timpuri Cand insumi mai eram in devenire, Cand un izvor nastea fara-ncetare Cantari atatea, de iubire, Cand negura-nvalea taramul Si-un mugur promitea minuni, Cand flori rupeam prin vai o mie Si le-azvarleam dupa lastuni. N-aveam nimic si totusi multe, Placeri gaseam in amagire, Porniri spre adevar inalt. Reda-mi adanca fericire, Reda-mi iubirea, chinul, ura, Cu tinerete laolalt'!

Sabahleyin azapl? bir rüyadan uyan?nca yok yere ona do?ru kollar?m? uzat?yorum...Daha böyle yar? uykulu halde onu yan?mda arad?ktan sonra iyice uyan?p da yaln?zl???m? anlad???m zaman kalbimden gözya?lar?m?n p?nar? ta??yor ve önümde beliren gelece?in karanl?klar?na kar?? ba??rt?yla a?l?yorum.

Tengo tanto para dar y mis sentimientos hacia lo consumen todo, tengo tanto, tanto, y sin ella todo se convierte en nada.

ONE HUNDRED TIMES have I been on the point of embracing her. Heavens! what a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it! And laying hold is the most natural of human instincts. Do not children touch everything they see?

Fakat, ÅŸimdi... Hayaller bana rahat vermiyor...