Quotes About Longing

In his hours alone, his mind wandered to a million possible outcomes, and he marveled at how long it had been since he had felt so preoccupied by a woman. It was because she was that rare thing, genuinely unobtainable. He should have given up days ago.

The morning sagged and decided to last for several years. I couldn't remember the last time minutes and hours stretched so interminably.

I don't think he'll be able to see you over the radio," Frances ventured. "But I still want to look nice for him." Margaret

As if something's missing. I feel as if there's some puzzle to which I don't hold all the pieces. Does that sound terribly silly?

Tu sei più o meno l'unica cosa che mi fa desiderare di svegliarmi.

I swore I wouldn't contact you again. But six weeks on, and I feel no better. Being without you-thousands of miles from you-offer is no relief at all. The fact that I am no longer tormented by your presence, or presented with daily evidence of my inability to have the one thing I truly desire, has not healed me. It has made things worse. My future feels like a bleak, empty road.

Those few seconds were the longest I could remember.

all I felt when I saw Vanessa was this weird sensation I used to get when I was a kid, like when you're at a friend's house and your mum comes to get you before you're ready.

I just…want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more." I released the door handle. "Sure." I closed my eyes and lay my head against the headrest, and we sat there together for a while longer, two people lost in remembered music, half hidden in the shadow of a castle on a moonlit hill.

The fact that I am no longer tormented by your proximity, or presented with daily evidence of my inability to have the one thing I truly want, has not healed me. It

Do you know how it feels to resign yourself to your fate? It is almost welcome. There was to be no more pain, no more fear, no more longing. It is the death of hope that comes as the greatest relief." The Girl You Left Behind

I didn't want to hear about people I loved playing Happy Families without me while I was thousands of miles away.

just … want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.

There was no one left to anchor her to the earth, no one who cared about her. There was nothing to go on to, nothing to return to.

den Duft durch ihr Haar ein und lässt sich ablenken, als sie ihm die Arme um den Nacken legt und ihn zu sich herunterzieht. «Fahren wir dieses Wochenende wirklich zusammen weg?» Widerstrebend macht er sich von ihr los. «Kommt darauf an, wie der Deal läuft. Zurzeit hängt alles ein bisschen in der Luft. Es kann immer noch sein, dass ich nach New York

I would honestly have changed my flight, perhaps even disappeared until I could make sure that there was between us a whole continent, not just a few impossible inches.

It was painful to see the best of him directed at someone else.

When I finally spoke, my voice was a small, broken thing. What emerged was the only thing I could safely say. 'I missed you.

I just . . . want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.

On evenings like this, when the streets below were filled with couples strolling, and laughing people spilled out of pubs, already planning meals, nights out, trips to clubs, something ached inside me; something

Sa stii, iubita mea, ca insemnez fiecare zi, nu ca pe inca una in care am reusit sa supravietuiesc, cum fac camarazii mei, ci multumind Celui de Sus ca fiecare zi inseamna ca au mai trecut douazeci si patru de ore pana cand am sa ma intorc la tine.

Podría haberle mirado a los ojos para siempre.

And, gradually, I let him know what it meant to me to have him in my life again, his voice in my ear in the small hours, the knowledge that I meant something to him. The sense of him as a physical presence, despite the miles that separated us.

Don't think of me too often. I don't want to think of you getting all maudlin.