Quotes About Longing

He had wanted. He had needed. He had desired. And he had taken. But he had never loved.

Her mother had said the words she longed to hear. Her mother could not get along without her. She felt warm, and safe and comforted.

She did not want her father's hair to grow thin or her mother's hair to grow gray. She wanted her parents to stay exactly as they were forever and ever.

The hard and unexpected part is the realization not just that my son is not here but that the boy he was is gone forever. I would give anything to have them both back. But of course that cannot be. Life moves on. Kids grow up and move away, and if you don't know this already, believe me, it happens faster than you can imagine.

One of Milton's poems contains the well-known line "Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.

People want everything. That's their problem.

I suppose because I grew up a thousand miles from the sea and missed the great age of passenger liners, I have always been subject to a romantic longing for ocean travel.

velleity, which describes a mild desire, a wish or urge too slight to lead to action.

It was, I see now on reflection, not unlike alcohol or tobacco: disgusting, at first; pleasurable, with effort; addictive, over time. And perhaps, in the end, a little self-destroying.

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

Dad says that the anticipation of having something is often more fun than actually having it - Calvin

Day says the anticipation of having something is often more fun than actually having it.- Calvin

Yet the one I think of most often_¨

I wanted more than life could ever grant

Most people fail rather than succeed because they give up what they really want for what they want at the moment.

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

Man is full of wants; he loves only those who can satisfy them all.

As I've aged, this feeling of longing has intensified and become my companion. I have come to see it as a gift; being homesick feels right, a reminder that this earth is not my home. My ties to this world become more tenuous with each passing year, and the more deeply I feel this, the closer I feel to Christ.

Why wait any longer for the one you love When he's standing in front of you

Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?

Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one.

Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting If I could hear his heart softly pounding Yes, and only if he was lying by me Would I lie in my bed once again.

I wanted to read all these books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something to do that.

everyone is making love or else expecting rain