Quotes About Longing

Sé que me pareció hermosa. Pero no consigo evocar su hermosura.

I could never stop comparing the way it was with Gertrud and the way it had been with Hanna; again and again, Gertrud and I would hold each other, and I would feel that something was wrong, that she was wrong, that she moved wrong and felt wrong, smelled wrong and tasted wrong. I thought I would get over it. I hoped it would go away. I wanted to be free of Hanna. But I never got over the feeling that something was wrong.

Gura m? durea de s?rut?ri.

The centre of me is always and eternally in terrible pain ... A searching for something beyond what the world contains, something transfiguring and infinite.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.

It is hard to fight with one's heart's desire. Whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of soul.

When one cannot satisfy one appetite, one satisfies another

To her all things are poignantly lacking — but she is incapable of desiring anything.

God made our souls to long for Him, and we are not fully satisfied without His presence in our lives.

Every human being longs for unfailing love. Lavish love. Focused love. Radical love. Love we can count on.

I looked at his hand, my insides wrenched and wrestling with wanting and not wanting to hold it. I'd held the dying hands of perfect strangers. But only strangers are perfect. It's the known ones that muddle.

My soul needed a place it could live. I longed for my defeats to be infrequent visitations, not my victories. Beloved, our personalized lands of earthly promise are places we're invited by God to dwell in Christ. It's high time we stopped dropping in and started taking up residency.

Oh, God, give us a longing—not for the sin of this world to be judged—but for the sinners of this world to be forgiven.

My body faints for You in a land that is dry, desolate, and without water. Psalm 63:1

Desiring is a part of dreaming.

I love an arcade. I love a boardwalk game. But I also love a rollercoaster. Though I think the rollercoaster love comes from the fact that it took a really long time for me to reach the height requirement, so I promised myself very early on that when I reach that, I will not take it for granted.

The list of plane reservations I keep on my phone - it's very, very, very long.

I'm a ladies' man who can never make love. I'm resigned to that.

I was an only child but I never longed for a sibling. It just didn't occur to me.

I always wanted siblings.

And I was desolate and sick of an old passion.

I'm sick when I don't work for year or two.

Being on the sidelines is no fun for me.