Quotes About Longing

Her dreams took up a sharper precision of outline. She sought deliberately in her past for facts long since forgotten, for lips that from afar she had adored, for bodies vaguely recognized which chance meetings and the random happenings of dream had brought into innocent contact with her own. She composed a symphony of happiness, invented a world of delights, built up from odds and ends a wholly impossible universe of love.

Maria Cross ! Maria ! douleur, douleur de ne l'avoir pas vue — mais surtout quel signe qu'elle n'ait pas même songé à m'avertir ! Il faut que je compte bien peu dans sa vie ; elle renonce à me voir sans même y arrêter sa pensée... Je mets l'infini dans des minutes qui ne sont rien pour elle... »

Tu m'as dit ''Je t'aime'', je t'ai dit ''Attends''. J'allais dire ''Prends-moi'', tu m'as dit ''Va-t-en

La révolution n'a pas de coeur, non. C'est une pute à la jupe fendue qui se fait attendre pendant des siècles et qui vous plante là, au moment où vous ommenciez à être excité. Une pute à la jupe fendue, et perverse au point de vous laisser voir tous ses appâts, pour que jamais plus vous ne puissiez les oublier.

J'ai hurlé dans le noir des parois de mon ventre quand j'ai demandé après toi. L'enfermée le sang la tache.

What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace?

I want my chirfugging goose back!

No." Mosca bit her lip and shook her head firmly. Books no longer seemed quite enough. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.

I feel like I'm holding my breath all the time, never knowing when my lungs will just give up. The air we're supposed to breathe is up above – I can feel it.

Wishes are thorns, he told himself sharply. They do us no good, just stick into our skin and hurt us.

Suddenly he remembered Josh sitting on the motorbike and chatting with the bikers outside the pub—and he felt a throb of jealousy. It wasn't that he harbored any desire to sit on a motorbike, but...he wanted to be allowed to want to sit on a motorbike.

Her face was upside down, but he could still make out her expression, and it filled him with a pang of curiosity. It was so long since he had seen such an expression that it took a while for him to recognize it as pity. Yes, it was true pity, without superiority or disdain. Just pain felt for pain. How strange it looked!

I don't think about "being happy" unless I'm with you, and then I never am. Humans are never happy.

She wanted to reach out across countless aeons and hold it, just as its maker had once held it. That would be like touching a star.

Je li to suština zaljubljenosti? Težiti onome što nikad ne?eš posti?i. Zagrliti jastuk, zrak ili rije?i koje ispijaš opet i opet iznova, kao smrtonosnu drogu.

Querido Alguien: No sé cómo te llamas ni dónde paseas tu tristeza, pero sé que algún día me encontrarás. Nos miraremos a los ojos y los dos sabremos que hemos llegado. Entonces comprenderás que yo soy tu puerto, tras una larga travesía por mares que habrías preferido no conocer, y yo lloraré de felicidad por haber dado contigo al fin.

I could look at you forever and never see the two of us together

Nothing but God ever completely satisfies, because the soul was made for God. Don't starve your soul.

I long to see [Jesus] face to face, to hear His voice and touch Him. In the day I go to be with Him, there will be no unfulfilled longings or disappointments. He will welcome me into His mansion, answer my questions, and teach me the wisdom of the ages.

Nothing seems to satisfy. Not politics, not education, not material goods. Some who refuse to turn their hearts toward God have created the New Age movement, with all of its aberrations. This is actually not new but only the latest attempt by man to place something other than Christ inside himself in a futile attempt to satisfy spiritual longings.

Men and women may devise plans to satisfy their inner longings, but in the midst of all the "religions" of the world, God's way is available in the Bible for all who will come to Him on His terms.

When we are young and restless to be free, home is the place from which we long to escape. But if there is still a home intact when trouble arises and life becomes a battlefield, home is the place to which we yearn to return.

Your yearning for God must supersede all other desires. It must be like a gnawing hunger and a burning thirst.

As a young man] I sought thrills! I found them in Christ. I looked for something that would bring perfect joy! I found it in Christ. I looked for something that would bring pleasure and that would satisfy the deepest longing of my heart! I found it in Christ. And my life has never been the same.