Quotes About Longing

He rested his hand on mine, once or twice. He kissed my brow, one time, in the late evening when the stars were full as moons, and I had brought him both a jug of wine and a treatise on transfiguration he had been asking for all over town, and I felt it on my head like a pain. But love is like that, it is hard and awful and, usually, it is not contagious.

but she does not know whom she wishes to catch, only that she wishes to catch someone, anyone, to be anchored, to be connected, to not be abandoned.

Darling September! That is why anyone wants to rule. Oh, they would never admit it. But at the bottom of their hearts, anyone who longs for power longs to have everyone and everything they love safe and happy forever in one place, no matter the cost. It's only what happens to those they do not love that makes it all go wrong-headed and hard.

She still longed for the best heights of magic, to see dragons and mermaids, to see the naked world.

Ivan said, If only we could eat violin music.

What the sign meant. To lose your heart. When I go home, I shall leave mine here, and I don't think I shall ever have it back." -September

All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've kept you framed up on the wall in a little box of nostalgic moonlight.

Dress you? I'd rather undress you. We don't belong together. But you belong to me. I want you not as you might be. I want you as you are.

Your desire for me was like a physiological weakness, a sort of epilepsy. I needed to see you in its grip more than I needed to eat.

Why worry about what might or might not happen when the heart is longing only to drink in the breath of this moment?

they were missing each other so much that all topics seemed to lead back to their separation and loss.

she was yearning to be with her grandparents now.

I had such a close relationship with my dog, and my dog so filled the need in my life to have children that I just wanted Cathy to have that experience.

If you were a wheel I'd follow your highway. If you were a raindrop I wish you'd fall my way. If you were a gypsy I'd give a fortune to tell That whenever I'm with you I see HEAVEN, not hell…

Lloyd felt as though he had just lost the woman he loved more than everyone else on earth

My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn't like you if you were the best of women,--or stop loving you, no matter what you do.

L'animo riposato aver solìa, ed era nuovo che fosse dolore: e or me n'ha così fornito Amore!

It's too late," she said, her voice trembling. "You are not the beautiful innocent vagabond walking toward me under the dogwood blossoms, with his trunks and his head full of worthless notions. And I am not the beloved, cherished ladies' maid...

The island cried out to me. I longed to feast my senses on its light and air, and restore my spirit with its peace. If I answered its call, soon enough I would live again in the familiar rhythms of its seasons—the wincing winters and dappled summers, its shy, reluctant springtide and gleaming, bronzed leaf fall.

In the heir's world, where everything was available, the unattainable had a wild allure.

He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn't have. He is everything I needed and couldn't find in real life. Of course he is. That's why I invented him.

Like everything perfect, he set up a ferocious pain inside me -- a flickering, griping sort of pain, because nothing as marvelous as that is ever within reach, is it? Nothing as beautiful can ever last.

Ik heb intussen het 3e Hoofdstuk voltooid, vol verguldsel, paars licht, Eeeuwig onvervulde liefdesverlangens, Jongens op bromfietsen, motregen en met oude canapé kleden behangen grotten. Het leven is veel groter dan ik het ooit zou kunnen beschrijven. En God is gek op me.

Daar, in dat meubelloze, ondanks de gezinsgrootte lege kamertje, temidden van de stapel naar verschaalde terpentijn riekende kerstbomen, ervoer ik voor het eerst in volle hevigheid de verlatenheid, die de onmiddellijke nabijheid van een in stomme aanbidding vereerd maar voor altijd onbereikbaar wezen inhoudt.