Quotes About Longing

Fantasy provides the pleasure peculiar to desire. -Lacan, Ecrits, 773

Desire springs from lack.

Satisfaction buries desires

and time was empty without you to see it.

You won't want what you cannot have

They say "ya gotta stay hungry"... Hey Baby...I'm just about starvin' tonight!

They never forget what they can't have

He disappears, and her endless wanderings in search of him take her to the moon, the sun, and the wind.

If you are gone [from your homeland] for fifteen years, you will not return. Even if you return, you will not return.

Jesus designed the Lord's prayer to reveal His desire to give us more fully, graciously, and suitably the very things we most want but seek elsewhere. He does not want to deny us our desires but helps remove the false objects of our affections so that we will have the greater blessings he longs to lavish on us.

Loneliness is a crowded room.

Death is the great hope of all life the desire to expend itself to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

If you don't have children the longing for them will kill you, and if you do, the worrying over them will kill you.

It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any.

He saw her eyes bright as stars; he saw her lips, and was not satisfied with only seeing them.

Her heart consenteth before her lips say: Yea; and in this interval lieth her Paradise; wherefore she would prolong it.

tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote.

For tho' we know what we ought to be; & what it would be very sweet & beautiful to be; yet we can't be it. That is most sad, too. Life is a long Dardenelles, My Dear Madam, the shores whereof are bright with flowers, which we want to pluck, but the bank is too high; & so we float on & on, hoping to come to a landing-place at last . . .

I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote.

I almost died, and I realized that all I regretted was you.

Gürültüden kaçmak, kendini kitlenin uÄŸultusuna, o bir yanarda??nkini and?ran, yeralt?ndan gelen, hiç bitmeyecekmiÅŸ gibi aral?ks?z süren, tembel dalgalar halinde alana yay?lan uÄŸultuya kapamak için art?k hayattan kopar?l?rcas?na al?n?p götürülme düÅŸüncesi, hiç kuÅŸkusuz çekici gelen bir düÅŸünceydi;

I'm so happy that I suddenly feel cold, tenatized by a joy that freezes me. He says 'I'm wrecked, I traveled all day hitchhiking to catch up with you, let's go to your hotel.' I had only dreamed and dream of nothing but the moment I would find myself alone with him in my hotel room, and yet my lips drily reply, 'We'll go later, let's go to the screening first.' At the end of the screening, Vincent announces that he's leaving again; a burning misery follows an icy joy.

You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.