Quotes About Longing

Oh my love take me there. Let me dwell where you are. I am already nothing, I am already burning. Oh my love, I was once part of you—take me too!

Though he has watched a decent age pass by, A man will sometimes still desire the world. I swear I see no wisdom in that man. The endless hours pile up a drift of pain More unrelieved each day; and as for pleasure, When he is sunken in excessive age, You will not see his pleasure anywhere. - Choral Poem between Scenes V & VI, Oedipus at Colonus

Not long now: the blazing dream of my head is crawling out.

What love, what call of the heart can touch my ears with joy? Nothing, friends.

Not the shape of one I loved. The ashes of a ghost.

Yes, if you can, but you're in love with impossibility.

I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.

What distinguishes all love from lust is the fact that it bears an impress of eternity.

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breath forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly one you can never have.

How empty life is and without meaning. - We bury a man, we follow him to the grave, we throw three spades of earth on him, we ride out in a coach, we ride home in a coach, we take comfort in the thought that a long life awaits us. But how long is threescore years and ten? Why not finish it at once?

We are in the world where the longing mountains are the most grounded.

You are the woman of my heart. The one I have been awaiting the whole of my life, though I didn't know it until I spied you. there isn't one thing that makes you special to me, but all things.

He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn't have. He is everything I needed and couldn't find in real life. Of course he is. That's why I invented him.

Far worse it is, To lose than never to have tasted bliss.

Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.

All over the planet, nature is being transformed into 'un-nature' at breakneck speed...My life is part of natural history. I long to know where that history came from and where it is going.

Thir must be less tae life than this

Life is short. But desire, desire is long.

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.

For what could any Entity, conscious of eternal existence, want – but an end?

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn't get to have one family for my entire life.

If an infant had the capacity to think hard about this world, it would have wanted to go back to its mother's womb again