Quotes About Longing

I would have given it up--all of it up--to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder--a reminder of everything I am losting. The Life I will not have.

You can only desire something that you've already had in your life.

Ask me to cut off my right arm for you, and I'll do it. Ask me to lay down my life for you, and I'll do it. But Please don't ask me to give you up now that I've found you again. Don't ask that, Amy

I can't even think about what life "could have been" like in Boston, without crying. It's like deja-vu, I don't think me and Boston were ever meant to be.

There was no quick grief for Andrew because he had been so slowly lost. First from my heart, then from my mind, and only finally from my life.

After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life

What kind of life am i supposed to have without you?You were the one good thing,the only good thing i ever found.

For some we loved, the loveliest and the bestThat from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest.

Ah, my Belovèd, fill the Cup that clearsToday of past Regrets and future Fears:Tomorrow!—Why, Tomorrow I may beMyself with Yesterday's Sev'n thousand Years.

Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane.

I wish I could believe in the otherworld I wish I could believe in a place Of reunions outside of memory

He could never stand still but now Something that had once been my son Lay there restless spirit Who left the house one rainy night And never returned Lost boy Who will never be found again Anywhere but eternity

Calico Pie,The little Birds flyDown to the calico tree,Their wings were blue,And they sang "Tilly-loo!"Till away they flew—And they never came back to me!

A trouble - nothing as beautiful as a sorrow - rose to the surface of his mind, displayed its ungainliness and sank. Its precise nature he did not ask himself, for his hour was not yet, but the hint was appalling, and, hero though he was, he longed to be a little boy again, and to stroll half awake for ever by the colourless sea.

We leave, we run away and don't realize how much we'll need to go back home one day. The South is like that. It's the worst mama in the world and it's the best mama in the world.

Love might come suddenly, unsought, from a place not looked for, and stay for a while before departing into the distance, to a place where it cannot be reached.

He found her pretty in a bewildered, washed-out way, but it was her restlessness that aroused him, the quiet exasperation of a woman who longs to throw herself into something significant, but cannot find what it is.

Perhaps the most devastating and damaging thing that can happen to someone is to fail to fulfill his potential. A kind of gnawing emptiness, longing, frustration, and displaced anger overwhelms people when this occurs. Whether the anger is turned inward on the self, or outward towards others, dreadful destruction results.

The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.

Man wants but little, nor that little long.

All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

Neither anything nor any person in the world can force and suggest me to forget you and leave my feelings and emotions to thinking and loving you.

One can buy everything in its life; however, one cannot buy dreams and love that one carries in heartbeats.

Truth and reality of true love prove when it departs from its beloved arms for immortal life.