Quotes About Longing

If love killed, let it kill him now. Maybe they would be reunited in death.

I have nothing! Nothing! If I don't have you.

You can't has,' he whispered softly, 'not yours.

Yet such is the perversity of human nature that I hungered for what I could never have and dreamed of the impossible.

I craved for the past, resented the present, and dreaded the future.

Dark to me is the earth. Dark to me are the heavens. Where is she that I loved, the woman with eyes like stars? Desolate are the streets. Desolate is the city. A city taken by storm, where none are left but the slain.

Benim en ?iddetli korkular?mdan biri, a?k?n gittikçe daha güçlü bir biçimde tedarik i?lerine kaymas?yd?; öyle ki sonunda geriye sadece tedarik kal?yor, a?k uçup gitmi? oluyordu.

They love Jesus because he is what they are not and cannot ever be. They try to drink his strength and simplicity and spontaneous beauty into themselves. But they do not succeed. They cannot

dokunman?n yo?un oldu?u bir ili?kide, iki insan kendilerini birbirlerine kal?c? bir biçimde ba?l? hissederler. arzulanan dokunu?lar?n aç??a ç?kard??? enerjiler, doyurucu bir hayat için vazgeçilemeyecek kadar üretkindirler. O nedenle birçoklar?nda öyle büyüktür, dokunma özlemi. (dokunman?n gücü üzerine, 10)

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this double nature of the visible and invisible world -- to the profound longing for the latter, coupled with the feeling of the sweet necessity for the former, we owe all sound and logical systems of philosophy, truly based on the immutable principles of our nature, just as from the same source arise the most senseless enthusiasms.

Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love? Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed - but what does our own experiences say in answer to books?

Disappear, she says. I love that word.

Sorrow is like the ocean and sometimes I wish my heart would stop.

He has the expression of someone who wishes the rain would stop.

and want is difficult at the best of times, and especially

Why am I always looking at life through a window?

With nothing meaningful in life, nothing is interesting. Enter boredom. A bored man even longs for longing. He has time to fill, but there is nothing compelling to do.

regarding her desire to become a mum, bearing in

The soul that loves God seeks no other reward than that God whom it loves. Were the soul to demand anything else, then it would certainly love that other thing and not God.

That Holy Other with which all spiritual persons are in relationship (that which I call God), is nothing other than that which satisfies the deepest longings of the human race. The spiritual relationship is a relationship of love-love beyond all telling. Spiritual experience is the experience of God's transcendent love, God's overwhelming and universal concern for every single human being.

We live in a culture where everything tastes good but nothing satisfies.

I'd never met him, so I never missed him.

I craved my mom, even when she was standing right next to me. With her hand in mine and my head resting on her hip, I wondered what I could do to make her feel as light as she seemed to be with everyone else. I wanted her to gently touch my arm and laugh at my knock-knock jokes the way she did when strangers said anything at all. What would it feel like to have my mom all to myself?