Quotes About Longing

It's unreasonable and unjustified, of course, but it's always there, hiding in the long shadow thrown by envy.

In its essence, the longing for family, and the ravenousness that the loss of family creates in us, isn't just for belonging: it's for the grace that abides in serving those we love.

Her thick, black plait of hair was the rope by which a man might climb to heaven.

the longer I went without it, the more important it seemed to become.

my heart put a wishing star in my eyes for them.

Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love: the passionate search for a truth other than our own. With longing: the pure, ineffable yearning to be

When we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.

But there are some people, some loves, that worry every goodbye, and leaving them is like leaving the country of your birth.

Don't you have someone waiting for you somewhere, or someone you should go to?

Whatever it was, I meant to take her up on it. I meant to go there, and look for her. But

Zemsta, tak jak seks, najlepsza jest powolna, nale?y j? zaspokaja? z otwartymi oczami.

They sang of heartbreak, and all the sorrows of loss.

I had no idea where in all the wide world I might begin to look for her.

Nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one-half of a great love that wasn't meant to be.

Nadie llore de forma más profunda o patética que la otra mitad de un gran amor que no está destinado a ser real. Nothing weeps more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn't meant to be.

But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see.

Love makes hunters of us all.

She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.

I've spent 34 years associated with the Cubs, and part of the reason I've stayed in baseball is because I want to be part of a World Series winner.

I think everyone deserves more than one World Series every 108 years so.

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

'One Day' is definitely heartbreaking in a few ways, but one of the main ways is that my character and Jim Sturgess's character are just people from two different worlds who love each other in so many ways and can't quite seem to get it together.

If you meet a girl who says: 'Darling, what do you mean? Of course I wear suspenders. I've worn them all my life. I think tights are for old people,' then know this: she's desperate to have kids, she wants you and her to live in the same house as her mum, she never wants to go out and she just wants to lie on your chest for the next 15 years.

The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.