Quotes About Longing

I didn't even know I could feel that way, that I could be filled with a longing so raw ad unexpected that it brought tears to my eyes.

It seems after so many years of chasing my childhood sweetheart I have found her hiding in the eyes of that girl behind the bike shed. I have expected for years that medicine should leak into my poetry but never dreamed that poetry might leak into my medicine in such a way. On my best days there is no separation at all between both disciplines. I feel as though I have discovered a late love and, like all of those who have, it is all the more sweet for taking so long to wander by.

so far away. He lives in Vence, not in Jerusalem," she

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

Sometimes you're hungry for one thing and not another.

Sometimes you're hungry for one thing and not another.

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.

I could see the longing in your eyes.

Sous quelque habit que ce soit, je n'en sentirai pas moins les misères de l'existence humaine. Je suis trop vieux pour jouer encore, trop jeune pour être sans désirs. Qu'est-ce que le monde peut m'offrir de bon ? Tout doit te manquer, tu dois manquer de tout ! Voilà l'éternel refrain qui tinte aux oreilles de chacun de nous, et ce que, toute notre vie, chaque heure nous répète d'une voix cassée.

Un désir oublié, qui pourtant veut renaître, Vient, dans sa longue paix, secouer mon esprit ; Mais, inarticulés, mes nouveaux chants peut-être Ne sont que ceux d'un luth où la bise frémit. Ah ! je sens un frisson : par de nouvelles larmes, Le trouble de mon cœur soudain s'est adouci. De mes jours d'autrefois renaissent tous les charmes, Et ce qui disparut pour moi revit ici.

None but the lonely heart understands my sorrows. Alone and torn from all joy, I gaze into the firmament, into the distant space. The one who loves me, who knows me, is nowhere near. I am dizzy and my insides are aflame. None but the lonely heart knows how I suffer.

Ach, daß die Freundin meiner Jugend dahin ist, ach, daß ich sie je gekannt habe!—ich würde sagen: du bist ein Tor! Du suchst, was hienieden nicht zu finden ist! Aber ich habe sie gehabt, ich habe das Herz gefühlt, die große Seele, in deren Gegenwart ich mir schien mehr zu sein, als ich war, weil ich alles war, was ich sein konnte.

So the most restless wanderer longs in the end for his homeland again and finds in his cottage, in the arms of his wife, in the midst of his children, in the work of looking after them, the joy he had sought in vain in the wide world.

I have so much and my feeling for her devours everything, I have so much and without her everything is nothing.

I wait for the morning of my tears.

i will miss you more than i can show you or tall you

The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

For the love of God have mercy on my aching cock. I want you in bed." "That, sure lord, is where I want to be.

I found out very early that the more you want to hold people the more they want to be free.

I've known a boy. I've measured beauty. What more do I want?

August is one of the hottest months of the northern year, so hold your breath and see that the fan is in order. It is also one of the longest months, and sometimes it seems even longer.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousand truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing a while upon the roof and then fly away.

Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence.

Ennui, perhaps, has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst...