Quotes About Longing

She was sleeping in a quiet bedroom beside her brother, separated only by glass and sand from the young man she loved, a young man who loved her back

Allie would love what you've done, he remarked. She was always a softie when it came to things like this. I folded my hands in my lap. I wish she could be there this weekend. Noah glanced at the stack of letters. I knew he was imagining Allie, and for a brief moment, he looked strangely younger. So do I, he said.

And while he was doing those things, he thought about Allie and the love that was missing from both their lives.

A girl needs to be able to dream, you know ?

He looks pretty broken up about the fact he won't see me tonight. Absolutely crushed, Sarah agreed with a nod. We were supposed to rent a movie together, you know. Sarah shrugged. It must be terrible to be forgotten so easily. Miles laughed. He was smitten about her, no doubt about it.

And some time after midnight on that clear October evening, Noah was overcome with longing. And if anyone had seen him, they would have seen what looked like an old man, someone who'd aged a lifetime in just a couple of hours. Someone bent over in his rocker with his face in his hands and tears in his eyes. He didn't know how to stop them.

Absence might make the heart grow fonder,' 'I don't think that's possible ... You have no idea how much I love you.

She wished her younger brother, Drake, were here, and she felt the usual ache when she thought of him.

Dawson, like tuck was one of those rare people who could love only once, and if anything, separation had only made his feelings grow stronger.

For when it comes, she is gone, and sometimes I wonder whether she and I will ever love again.

I can sometimes lose track of time when staring at a sky filled with wind-whipped clouds, and when I hear thunder rumbling, I always draw near the window to watch for lightning. When the next brilliant flash illuminates the sky, I often find myself filled with longing, though I'm at a loss to tell you what it is that I feel my life is missing.

Wanting to be with someone is a positive thing. It's about love and respect and desire. But not wanting to lose someone isn't about those things. It's about fear.

Standing in the pouring rain, she felt the pull of the person he was, and the person she realized she wanted to be. By

She remembered sitting beneath the tree on a hot July day with someone who looked at her with a longing that took everything else away. And it had been at that moment that she'd first fallen in love.

always together, forever apart.

'The Babadook,' written and directed by a woman, is a gorgeously told female-focused story of grief, longing, loneliness, and what mourning can become.

'You'll Accomp'ny Me' is a song I've always really cherished. The guy in that song is just so courageous. He's saying this to the girl, 'I know you've got to go do your thing, but eventually, we'll be together. I feel that strong, and I know it in my soul.' And there's something really cool about that.

I've felt since I was a kid this desperate longing to be closer to - I don't know what. Just to something bigger, to be in conversation with the mystery of everything.

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

My definition of the blues is the naked cry of the human heart longing to be in union with God.

I'm from Clearwater, Florida, and I love Nashville so much I don't even really miss the beach.

He left and I wished I could go somewhere and start all over, which is how I've felt all my life. As soon as I get somewhere, I'm ready to leave.

When I couldn't see the land out there, I forgot I wasn't at home. Sometimes I wished it was always night.

I wanted what we had. What we were going to have. Together. We had a future.