Quotes About Longing
LOVE REDEEMS. DESPITE all the lovelessness that surrounds us, nothing has been able to block our longing for love, the intensity of our yearning. The understanding that love redeems appears to be a resilient aspect of the heart's knowledge. The healing power of redemptive love lures us and calls us toward the possibility of healing.
~ bell hooks
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And he can honestly confess to longing to give and receive love. Being hut by parenting adults rarely alters a child's desire to love and be loved by them. Among grown-ups who were wounded in childhood, the desire to be loved by uncaring parents persists, even when there is a clear acceptance of the reality that this love will never be forthcoming.
~ bell hooks
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We can never go back. I know that now. We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost long ago
~ bell hooks
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Her ethical values are eroded by the intensity of longing and lack. But she no longer sees herself as living at odds with the consumer culture she lives in; she has become connected, one with the culture of consumption and driven by its demands. Love is not a topic she thinks about.
~ bell hooks
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Muitos de nós desejamos amor, mas nos falta coragem para correr riscos.
~ bell hooks
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My grief was a heavy, despairing sadness caused by parting from a companion of many years but, more important, it was a despair rooted in the fear that love did not exist, could not be found.
~ bell hooks
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These children, like their adult peers, do not link their longing for wealth with uncritical acceptance and support of transnational white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. They simply believe they are longing for the "good life" and that this life has to be bought.
~ bell hooks
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Fearful that believing in love's truths and letting them guide our lives will lead to further betrayal, we hold back from love when our hearts are full of longing.
~ bell hooks
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We can never go back. We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost long ago.
~ bell hooks
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Os bardos cantam sobre o amor e sobre como as mulheres desejam o amor, mas ninguém sabe o que ele é até que, como uma lança atirada do escuro, ele acerta.
~ Bernard Cornwell
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Amavo moltissimo la mia Ceinwyn. Anche ora, dopo anni, sorrido quando la penso; a volte, di notte, mi sveglio con le lacrime agli occhi e so di averle versate per lei. Il nostro amore era nato in una vampata di passione e i saggi dicono che simili passioni si spengono sempre, ma la nostra non se era spenta: si era mutata in un amore intenso e duraturo.
~ Bernard Cornwell
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Nondum amabam, et amare amabam. (No amé, pero anhelaba amar)
~ Bernard Cornwell
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Eu ama Ceinwyn demais. Mesmo agora, anos depois, sorria ao pensar nela, e algumas vezes acordo de noite com lágrimas no rosto e sei que se devem a ela.
~ Bernard Cornwell
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Derfel: – Capisco che puoi guardare negli occhi una persona e renderti conto a un tratto che la vita ti sarà impossibile senza di lei. Che la sua voce può far saltare un battito al tuo cuore, che la sua compagnia è tutta la felicità che potrai mai desiderare, che la sua assenza ti lascerà orbato e perduto.
~ Bernard Cornwell
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thinking of her, he felt a sudden longing inside him. She had the face of a hawk, slim and cruel, with dark hair and eyes. Teresa was beautiful as a fine sword was beautiful; slim and hard.
~ Bernard Cornwell
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Entendo que é possível olhar nos olhos de alguém e de súbito saber que a vida será impossível sem eles. Saber que a voz da pessoa pode fazer seu coração falhar, e que a companhia dessa pessoa é tudo que sua felicidade pode desejar, e que a ausência dela deixará sua alma solitária, desolada e perdida.
~ Bernard Cornwell
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Odi at amo, excrucior
~ Bernard Cornwell
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I do understand that you can look into someone's eyes,' I heard myself saying, 'and suddenly know that life will be impossible without them. Know that their voice can make your heart miss a beat and that their company is all your happiness can ever desire and that their absence will leave your soul alone, bereft and lost.
~ Bernard Cornwell
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Ogni occhiata perduta, per uno che viveva di sguardi, era una perdita irrimediabile.
~ Bernard Malamud
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Verzweifelt hatte er sie gefragt, wie sie sich so sicher sein konnte, dass sie ihn nicht liebte. Ihre Worte darauf hatten ihm das Herz aus dem Leib geschnitten. »Weil ich dich nie vermisst habe, nachdem du gegangen warst.«
~ Bernhard Hennen
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Verzweifelt hatte er sie gefragt, wie sie sich so sicher sein konnte, dass sie ihn nicht liebte. Ihre Worte darauf hatten ihm das Herz aus dem Leib geschnitten. ?Weil ich dich nie vermisst habe, nachdem du gegangen warst.?
~ Bernhard Hennen
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Since our nights together on that trip, I had longed every night to feel her next to me, to curl up against her, my stomach against her behind and my chest against her back, to rest my hand on her breasts, to reach out for her when I woke up in the night, find her, push my leg over her legs, and press my face against her shoulder.
~ Bernhard Schlink
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In spite of the fact that she pushed me away again and again, and again and again I crawled to her.
~ Bernhard Schlink
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Pensei que, quando se deixa passar o momento certo, quando alguém recusou algo tempo de mais, quando nos é recusado algo tempo de mais, esse algo chega forçosamente demasiado tarde mesmo que seja realmente desejado com força e acolhido com alegria.
~ Bernhard Schlink
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