Quotes About Longing

Home. What kinder place could there be on earth, and why did it seem to them all like exile? Oh

For need can blossom into all the compensations it requires. To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into it so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it?

In that eternity of his, where everybody will be happy, how could he feel the lack of her, the loss of her?

Schon bald nach ihrer Heirat war sie zu dem Schluss gekommen, dass Liebe zur Hälfte aus einer Sehnsucht bestand, die durch Besitz nicht zu lindern war.

The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.' There are pleasures to be found where you would never look for them. That's a bit of fatherly wisdom, but it's also the Lord's truth, and a thing I know from my own long experience.

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it?

I've probably been boring a lot of people for a long time. Strange to find comfort in the idea. There have always been things I felt I must tell them, even if no one listened or understood.

And there I was, trudging through the same old nowhere, day after day, always wanting to slow down, to sit down, to lie down, with my father walking on ahead, no doubt a little desperate, as he had every right to be.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.

When people have wearied of life in Gilead, when they want another life altogether, they mention Chicago.

Már egy ideje házasok voltak, amikor arra a következtetésre jutott, hogy a szerelem részben olyan vágy, amelyet a birtoklás nem enyhít.

The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

If there was one thing she wished she could save from it all, it was the way it felt to walk along beside him.

I can tell you this, that if I'd married some rosy dame and she had given me ten children and they each had given me ten grandchildren, I'd leave them all, on Christmas Eve, on the coldest night of the world, and walk a thousand miles just for the sight of your face, your mother's face. And if I never found you, my comfort would be in that hope, my lonely and singular hope, which could not exist in the whole of Creation except in my heart and in the heart of the Lord

Insomnia, then, is not just a state of sleeplessness, a matter of negatives. It involves the active pursuit of sleep. It is a state of longing.

She cannot return your love. She does not live in our world. She does not even live in the world of animals. She lives on a different star, absolutely alone.

I cannot wait an eternity for happiness.

Nostalgia is cowardice

Porque, en su intensa vida yo debía de ser una de las pocas cosas estables, el idiota fiel y enamorado, siempre allí, esperando la llamada para hacer sentir al ama que era todavía lo que sin duda ya estaba dejando de ser, lo que pronto no sería más: joven, bella, amada, codiciable.

Was je dan nog steeds verliefd op je ongrijpbare landgenote, Ricardo Somocurcio? Geen twijfel mogelijk.

Ik heb al het mogelijke gedaan om haar te vergeten, maar eerlijk gezegd is dat nutteloos.

Con gli anni, mi hai fatto diventare come te. Tutto serve per ottenere quello che uno vuole. Sono parole tue, nina mala. E io, lo sai fin troppo bene, l'unica cosa che voglio a questo mondo sei tu. (...) No, tu non sei capace di cose così. disse, a mezza voce, come lamentando quella carenza della mia personalità.

Había sentido un dedicado malestar, una quieta nostalgia. ¿El amor, Zavalita? Entonces nunca habías estado enamorado de Aída, piensa. ¿O el amor era ese gusano en las tripas que sentías años atrás? Piensa: entonces nunca de Ana, Zavalita.