Quotes About Longing

And smale foweles maken melodye,That slepen al the nyght with open yë,(So priketh hem nature in hit corages);Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages.

But yet I hadde alwey a coltes tooth.Gat-toothed I was, and that bicam me weel.

And so, wish becomes pang; the crave, an ache; pleasure, pain. Losing all its pleasure, anticipation cuts the opposite direction and becomes merely a constant, painful reminder of what they've lost, forever.

They think that if they were allowed to do anything they desired, they would be satisfied and the more desires the better. But all desires divorced from The Desire eventually collapse in on themselves.

I want night, deep ambrosial night.

Kannst du verhindern, daß unsere Köpfe sich auf dem Boden des Korbes küssen?

'Tis but the wraith of love; yet I linger.

In your defence, it's been a long day and you've had a lot to drink.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

She was so pretty, so elegant, it made me lonely just to look at her.

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

I was in love with him. I mean, I'm not gay, but this was a physical love. When I was around him, I couldn't breathe. I felt like he was the world. I loved him the way that a worm loves its apple.

There is no hopelessness so sad as that of early youth, when the soul is made up of wants, and has no long memories, no superadded life in the life of others.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

I just thought I had to do it. You want this boy to like you, right? And he's so solid, so sure of himself. He knows what he wants: you. Besides, maybe if he touches you, you'll be real.

I have told my passion, my eyes have spoke it, my tongue pronounced it, and my pen declared it; I have sighed it, wrote it, and subscribed it, now my heart is full of you, my head raves of you and my hand writes to you but all in vain.

I don't know why people like the home run so much. A home run is over as soon as it starts.... The triple is the most exciting play of the game. A triple is like meeting a woman who excites you, spending the evening talking and getting more excited, then taking her home. It drags on and on. You're never sure how it's going to turn out.

Where the hell would I go without you, Kate? No matter where I went, you would be there in my head. I would miss you every moment of my life.

Eight years had passed. Everything about me had changed, but I was still in love with Derek Gaunt.