Quotes About Longing

Nothing ever breaks the heart, besides what it loves.

Sometimes we hope for what we left behind.

We simply love, but love is hardly reciprocated.

Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again.

They flee from me, that sometime did me seekWith naked foot, stalking in my chamber.

As you came from the holy landOf Walsinghame,Met you not with my true LoveBy the way as you came?

It's a song of a merryman, moping mum,Whose soul was sad, and whose glance was glum,Who sipped no sup, and who craved no crumb,As he sighed for the love of a lady.

Sometimes even now I think I see him in the street or standing in a window or bent over a book in a coffee shop. And in that instant, before I understand that it's someone else, my lungs tighten and I lose my breath.

Distortion is part of desire. We always change the things we want.

Six months isn't such a long time. That's how long it's been since I came to see you in May, but the fact is it's been much longer than that. We've spent years living inside each other.

Desire is the engine of life, the yearning that goads us forward with stops along the way, but it has no destination, no final stop, except death.

I love clothes and have often pined for them - the beautiful dress or coat in the window. My desire is for the transformation I imagine will take place, a kind of enchantment of my own body.

I suppose Stanley fell in love with me during those talks about life and books, but he probably loved someone else, a person who wasn't me.

She's still in love with you," Violet said. "I know." "Or maybe she's in love with the idea of me on the other side of the country.

i wanted more time so we could fall in love.

It's you my love, you who are the stranger.

When love congeals It soon reveals The faint aroma of performing seals, The double-crossing of a pair of heels. I wish I were in love again!

Do you know how painful it is to tell someone you love him and not hear him say it back?

The God of Love lives in a state of need.

To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

I dote on his very absence.

The Dream" "O I had such a wonderful dream, she said. I dreamed you made love to me. At last, he said to himself, the spirit has taken up some of the heavy work.

Unrequited love's a bore.

I do not desire to die soon, because in Heaven there is no suffering. I desire to live a long time because I yearn to suffer much for the love of my Spouse.