Quotes About Longing

I would love to spend more time in Britain one day. In my heart, I still feel that I'm English, and when I think of home, I think of England.

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.

When I sit down to eat, the greatest spice of all is hunger.

Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.

I'd be lying if I claimed that, in spite of our amiable afternoons, I don't have an ache somewhere in my heart that my children will not be playing Carnegie Hall anytime soon.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever.

You surely know that in the course of a long marriage it is not unusual for a husband or a wife to develop a crush on someone else.

I hope you fall in love with someone nice and have a good marriage. I might end up dying without knowing what it's like to be in love.

Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.

You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own.

Is not marriage an open question when it is alleged from the beginning of the world that such as are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in.

Some wo/men are so possessive … you end up missing missing them.

Not all of his relationships were meant to end . . . Once he sent a postcard and inadvertently wrote "Wish you were her."

I'm every woman's dream and every man's nightmare.

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

God has so made man's heart that nothing can ever fill it but God himself.

Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.

Only God can fully satisfy the hungry heart of man.

Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.

Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied, another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.