Quotes About Longing

she wants to to be loved for a few hours at least. I look away, people need peace. it's raining hard outside; lives are breaking in the storm.

He gains the farthest reaches where the ache of our most ancient absence lay.

I need her still, and I don't know what to do. She was just here.

We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.

I desire you as deeply as I ever have, but I understand that the fervor of a desire is irrelevant to its justice.

So this is it. This is the Great Escape. Is it wrong for us to want this? I keep thinking, if there are so many worlds, who decided which one to put us on? No one asked us what we wanted. Don't we have the right to look for something more? We'll be back; we know we can't stay away forever. But just for a while...just for a while.

Can a body love something so much that her heart aches with the loving?

Time passes and human greed outlasts even the eternal.

That was what it meant to be loved--there were people who would never give up looking and longing for you, no matter how far you wandered lost.

All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.

No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.

On a ship that's made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you.)

If endless love was a dream, then it was a dream we all shared...

Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.

After a week, it's better. I miss her. I mourn her. But some peace has returned. She had been so unattainable - so young, so much a citizen of a different era - that it is hard to feel fully deprived.

I will block her path with thornbushes; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way. She will chase after her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them. Then she will say, "I will go back to my husband as at first, for then I was better off than now." (Hosea 2:6–7 NIV)

O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory. Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands. My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips. (Ps. 63:1–5)

Only your love is better than life, Jesus. Only your love meets the deepest needs of my whole being and satisfies my most intense longings. Only your love is unwavering, Jesus, for all other loves are filled with conditions and contingencies. Only your love is unfailing, Jesus, for all other loves are fickle and finite.

I've been fighting to be who I am all my life. What's the point of being who I am, if I can't have the person who was worth all the fighting for?

It all came back to me last night, stirredBy the sootfall of your things at bedtime,Your head-down, tail-up hunt in a bottom drawerFor the black plunge-line nightdress.

... but the longest day hath its evening.

It's a great humanitarian injustice. Their families are here and they've been here. It's long past time for them to be reunited.

It feels strange to have spent much time wishing for something, for someone and then one day, suddenly, to just stop.