Quotes About Longing

Right now all he wanted was to get out of this awful place where reality had worn so thin.

As his arms went around her, she wondered how much of the human race understood about hugging- how good it was, and how a person could want to do it for hours on end. She supposed some did understand, but doubted that they were in the majority. To fully understand about hugging, maybe you had to have missed a lot of it.

She was just a year old, but she had wanted me to stay longer. That's how you know you're home, I think, no matter how far you've gone from it or how long you've been in some other place. Home is where they want you to stay longer.

Goodbye, Sadie. You never knew me, but I love you, honey.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away—even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

Every so often we long to steal to the land of what-might-have-been. But that doesn't soften the ache we feel when reality sets back in.

His stomach bubbled with anxiety. He'd waited a long time for this. Camp by the riverside. Advice he'd received years ago—and as true as ever. If you waited by the river long enough, eventually your enemies would float by.

W]e long for something permanent … Yet … experience provides nothing but change.

Some nights, alone, he thinks of her, and some nights, alone, she thinks of him. Some night these thoughts, separated by miles and time zones, occur at the same objective moment, and Ray and Mirabelle are connected without ever knowing it.

A kiss may not be the truth but it is what we wish were true." L.A. Story (1991) – Harris Telemacher (Steve Martin)

She looked down again and I was stymied. I sat. Oh, this was enough to make me love her, because I was right with her, understanding every second and longing to step in. I didn't even need to know the specific that was troubling her, because to me her halting voice easily stood for the general woe that hangs in the air, even on life's happiest days.

To Mirabelle, the idea of being an object of obsession is alluring and represents a powerful love. She fails to understand, however, that men become obsessive over beautiful women because they want no one else to have them, but they fall in love with women like Mirabelle because they want a certain, specific part of them.

Life is miserable without you, its almost like having you here!

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I longed for release from whatever it was I was. But whatever I was lay hard and immovable in me, like bone; I would never be free of my own weight.

Sometimes I feel that I am slowly erasing muself, in order for someone else to appear, the one I long for, who will not resemble me.

In The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lecter (a.k.a. Hannibal the Cannibal) taunts his pursuer by saying, "I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner.

God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness.

And yet shall Love himself be heard,Though long deferred, though long deferred:O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred:Music is Love in search of a word.

Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.

Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.

And all I loved, I loved alone.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

I have been in love already, but I don't think I have ever really loved somebody. Love is a very rare and beautiful thing, but it can also be bitter if the other one doesn't love you back.