Quotes About Longing

Estoy medio confundido, viejo. Es raro sentirse triste y extrañar la casa de uno, si no tienes idea de adónde deseas volver, ¿cazas lo que digo? Lo único que sé es que no quiero estar aquí. Quiero regresar con mi familia donde sea que quede eso, al lugar de donde me sacaron. Quiero recordar.

My move my throat my wildest loves, the eyes behind my eyes. Instead I left Him, though he followed me right to the end.

This faith and hope will pale into insignificance, when the mother, mourning for her recently departed loved one, hears his voice declaring to her that he is still alive, and has all his love, and longings for her, and that he is with her feeling her love for him.

Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.

it should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.

You never loved anyone who loved you back.

Impossible," he said "I am in love with my food source.

If I never meet you In this life Let me feel the lack A glance from your eyes Then my life Will be yours

His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.

and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

Among the lonely, you are perhaps the loneliest of all, You come so close to love. But it eludes you.

Never knew a man could be so…hungry for it.

Lust makes cowards of us all.

Let's see you come again, Jack. This time with me inside you.

I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in the face of a young girl in the park, buying a snowball under an oak tree by the baseball diamond. But she belongs to back there, to somebody else, and that thought sometimes rends your heart in a way that you never share with anyone else.

It's what you thought you wanted, but what the heart desires isn't the same as what the heart needs.

Tomorrow night, if I come back, there'll be kisses. Lovely ones, Frank. Not drunken kisses. Kisses with dreams in them. Kisses that come from life, not death.

When we ask people what they want in church instead of giving them what they were created to long for, we play in the very idolatry that church was created to dismantle.

More of anything other than God will never fill that longing for fulfillment He has placed within you and me.

In our deepest longings we hear echoes of God's longing for us. And the more we can follow these deep-down desires, those that God places within us for our happiness, the more joyful we will find ourselves.

The present moment holds infinite riches beyond your wildest dreams but you will only enjoy them to the extent of your faith and love. The more a soul loves, the more it longs, the more it hopes, the more it finds. —Jean-Pierre de Caussade, S.J. (1675–1751), The Sacrament of the Present Moment

Our hearts cry out,

present moment holds infinite riches beyond your wildest dreams but you will only enjoy them to the extent of your faith and love. The more a soul loves, the more it longs, the more it hopes, the more it finds. —Jean-Pierre de Caussade, S.J. (1675–1751), The Sacrament of the Present Moment The

In such uncommon longings, hidden in plain sight in our lives, does God call us.