Quotes About Longing

And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey--a look of longing. "Lord! I wish I could go.

Take me back into the time when I lost track of time!

One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.

If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.

I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.

When one does look up at the grand trees growing up almost to the sky, one does always have longings to pray.

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...

He could not die when the trees were green, For he loved the time too well.

And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?

Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.

Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.

Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for in it lies a whole mixture of gratitude and longing, the twin ingredients of every prayer.

The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth

and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Sometimes I see something so moving I know I'm not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

I am usually always singing about the same god damn person so I will love him forever but you know, it's all good. It's all good!

Although love unreturned can drive you to despair, trust that somewhere out there, someone is waiting just for you.

Where were you when I undressed and told the tales of my day?Where were youwhenI was silent with God in prandial pray?Where were youwhen I recited love poems as I lay?Where were you?

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Dear God, the woman was still beautiful. After all these years. All this time. And he bet he could have her pants off and be inside her in…he glanced at his watch. Thirty seconds. Yeah. That would work.

The only thing that can hurt me now is the thought of never knowing this feeling again. To never be able to touch you this way again...

I would be anyone if only I could be with you.