Quotes About Longing

I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover.

A feeling of disquiet continues to haunt me. As a youth one dreams of love; by the time one wakes, it is too late.

Few things are as painful as the unfulfilled desire to be near to another you love.

We know what it's like to fall in love and be disassembled, but we still want to pull death right off the bodies of one another.

How it can be, that Ice Cream ain't existing anywhere. Will be no me to know that I ain't there.

He laughed and came forward impulsively to kiss her—his affection a potent thing, a flourish of light. She was smiling, her tears feeling fresh on her face. He smelled of sweat and roses. She felt it in the palms of her hands, in her loins. It was right. It was Southampton she had wanted all along.

The maidservants all were in love with Southampton, in a rapt, unhoping way, like a tribe of poets in love with the moon; one would have a fit of tears, then it spread to another and another, until all the house heaved with love's calamity.

It was as if they had never been apart.

First I think he going to kiss me, and I brace myself to bite. But he brush his cheek past mine, until I feel his heaten breath against my tender throat. I go weak in my blood, unwanten sorrows how is good. Run through myself in scary trembling, and when his lips rest to my neck, I take my breath in startle love.

Then I remember ice cream been a food I never taste. I wonder what my mama dream to name me for this food, as if she name me Something Lost.

How it can be, that Ice Cream ain't existing anywhere. Will be no me to know I ain't there.

Beauty is not to ask for, but to overask for.

You will journey far beyond the boundaries of your imagination. You will meet and seize your heart's desire. It will be the death of your soul.

I gave you my wolf and I would have tamed an eagle for you. I have waited to see you again when none believed that you should ever return; I would have waited for ever.

Because beautiful things always make us sad,' she replied, closing her eyes and nestling her head against his. 'Why?' 'Because we can't hold onto them forever.' 'No, because they're transient, like a rainbow or a sunset. Nothing beautiful lasts. Or perhaps because they remind us of where we came from and our spirits long to return

Quería verla, así fuera de lejos. Necesitaba comprobar que seguía existiendo, que la imagen que tenía en la mente y que lo hacía sufrir tenía una vida por fuera de su nostalgia

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Aku mencintaimu. Itulah sebabnya aku tak pernah berhenti mendoakanmu.

Cintaku padamu, Adinda, adalah laut yang pernah bertahun memisahkan kita, adalah langit yang senantiasa memayungi kita, adalah kawanan kera yang di Gua Kiskenda.

Äiti rakas en jaksa kutoa olen nääntynyt ikävästä kiitos ihanan Afrotiden

kevään sanansaattaja satakieli kaipaus sen äänessä

Uni on varannut heidät itselleen koko yöksi

Sweet mother, I cannot ply the loom, vanquished by desire for a youth through the work of soft Aphrodite.

I loved you once long ago, Athis… you seemed to me a small, ungainly child.