Quotes About Longing

you ask me why I compare you to stars - it's simple - that's where your goddess has fled...

you merely look at me and I want to confess, but don't - I've buried my heart under the floor boards, but you always dig it up...

have you been waiting all this time, faithful as always, my Life?...

I keep breaking things - appointments and porcelain, thinking of your lips...

Use your finger to trace the scar upon my chest- I lied - it wasn't a knife wound, but a scrape from a nail sliding under a fence to see you...

does it seem strange in the loneliness of the present time, that I run to you?...

all this time I've been worshiping you - when other men wanted to kiss you, I've been offering the praise of my lips...

Venice had no memories of her father, a policeman killed in the line of duty before she was born, and it was a source of pain that she'd never truly overcome. For as long as she could remember, she'd always dreamed about what her father might have sounded like and smelled like. The picture on Mama's dresser gave her a face, but she'd never know the voice that went with it.

You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.

I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.

But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating so I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane.

I faced in myself a passionate and tenacious longing--to put away thought forever, and all the trouble it brings, all but the nearest desire, direct and searching. To take the trail and not look back..Let the rest of mankind find me if it could.

We and the trees and the way Back from the fields of play Lasted as long as we could. No more walks in the wood.

Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!

From the moment I saw you, I wanted you in my dreams

Sadder than a ticking clock, the moments without you

Last night, lost in spaces between star—bays and lakes of clouds, I tossed and turned looking for you

After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.

He was a man who longed to do more with his life, to investigate creativity and originality, but was afraid of the disruption this indulgence might bring to a carefully regimented life.

Still thinking of you. Dr. S.

Todavía pienso en ti. Doctor S.

En mi loca vida había muchas cosas fuera de mi alcance. Supongo que debí de haber sabido que me enamoraría de la persona mas exótica que conocería en mi vida.

And they are gone: aye, ages long agoThese lovers fled away into the storm.