Quotes About Longing

I missed Eve so much I couldn't be a human anymore and feel the pain that humans feel. I had to be an animal again.

Can you understand what it's like to miss something so terribly that you'll accept even the shadow of its memory to keep your heart from withering away?" -From "Danaïd Night

That was how Joseph heard for the first time that he would never see Madeleine again, never touch her again, never talk to her again, never walk through the woods with her again. That was how Joseph heard for the first time that Madeleine, whom he loved, was gone.

He missed him like he would miss the sun if it fell out of the sky.

The world turns and the world spins, the tide runs in and the tide runs out, and there is nothing in the world more beautiful and more wonderful in all its evolved forms than two souls who look at each other straight on. And there is nothing more woeful and soul-saddening than when they are parted. Turner knew that everything in the world rejoices in the touch, and everything in the world laments in the losing.

Here I sit with a thirty-six-year-old lust, and a three-year-old dinky.

Our souls are wired for what we will never enjoy until Eden is restored in the new heaven and earth. We are built with a distant memory of Eden."8

Approached in the right way, marriage can cause us to reevaluate our dependency on other humans for our spiritual nourishment, and direct us to nurture our relationship with God instead. No human being can love us the way we long to be loved; it is just not possible for another human to reach and alleviate the spiritual ache that God has placed in all of us.

Marriage requires a radical commitment to love our spouses as they are, while longing for them to become what they are not yet. Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another's glory or toward degrading each other. —Dan Allender and Tremper Longman III

Our souls are wired for what we will never enjoy until Eden is restored in the new heaven and earth. We are built with a distant memory of Eden."6

I would live forever if I could, but not like this.

He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.

Are people so unhappy when they love?" "Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.

I am going to die of love....daroga....I am dying of love .... That's how it is... I loved her so! And I love her still...daroga.....and I am dying of love for her, I tell you! if you knew how beautiful she was when she let me kiss her...It was the first ...time, daroga, the first time I ever kissed a woman.. Yes, alive... I kissed her alive.... And she looked as beautiful as if she had been dead!

Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.

I spent the first twenty years of my life waiting for two men I was reasonably certain would never come back: my daddy and Jesus. At least with Jesus I knew he wasn't gone because of something I did

Such Small Things: For a long time there were only your footprints & laughter in our dreams & even from such small things, we knew we could not wait to love you forever.

Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.

I was the forlorn seeker after a relationship which was always beyond my reach.

Oh yeah 'Nostalgia is a state of inarticulate contempt to the present and a fear of the future.

There, there are no chicken wings

129Your marvelous words are living miracles; No wonder I long to obey everything You say. 130Break open Your Word within me until revelation-light shines out! Those with open hearts are given insight into Your plans.

6Now I'm reaching out to you, thirsting for you like the dry, cracked ground thirsts for rain.

With His friend, Moses, God spoke "face to face" (Num. 12:8). But in the Hebrew language it says, 'mouth to mouth.' God spoke to Moses 'mouth to mouth!' This is the Kiss of His Word to our spirits. It is the longing of the soul to be united to the Word of God.