Quotes About Longing

Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years and had a lovely time.

Time goes by slowly when you spend it waiting.

O aching time! O moments big as years!

The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.

There are some things that are as ancient as time, and knowing when a man desires you is one of those.

Anyone know any long-term couples living three time zones apart?

Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.

Praying for the end of time, so I can end my time with you.

I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.

It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.

Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.

White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul You live again in time, slender and silent.

Every time he glances at me I feel it just as surely as if he has reached out and run his finger along my soul. It is all I can do not to smile at the sheer wonder of it.

The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other.

You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope.

The more you ignore me, the closer I get; you're wasting your time.

Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting If I could hear his heart softly pounding Yes, and only if he was lying by me Would I lie in my bed once again.

I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.

There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.

I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

It's been a long time since I've had champagne.

I've been a vegetarian for so long, I forgot how much I missed meat. You know you don't realize how important meat is to you until you don't have it for long time.

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.

He doesn't want your mind, the fool, and I don't want your body. I can buy women cheap. But I do want your mind and your heart, and I'll never have them, any more than you'll ever have Ashley's mind. And that's why I'm sorry for you.