Quotes About Longing

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.

I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.

Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.

And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to compose a poem, an honest verse of longing / Or a simple song of hope.

There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me.

Hope! thou nurse of young desire.

You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.

I hope I die before I get old.

The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.

You are a dream; I hope I never meet you.

Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. No hope, no harm; just another false alarm.

The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.

It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?

I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you.

It is my great hope that our paths, however long and winding, will cross again.

I'll tell you what I'm fighting for. Not for England, nor her allies, nor any patriotic cause. It's all come down to the hope of being with you.

There were days I asked for it-prayed for it when I went to sleep. The belief that I would see you again, that I could find you-the hope for it-was the only thing that kept me going.

I think control is the wrong word. I would put it this way. You see a lovely girl across a crowded room and you walk toward her with hope in your mind. That's the way [my] pictures are made.

Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.

The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!

What is forever? God, I don't know. Hope, I guess. That's a difficult question.

It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky