Quotes About Longing

He has never inspired me with any desire and left it unsatisfied, and that is why I have always found His bitter chalice full of sweetness.

A little longer, and we shall be in our true country, and our childhood's joys—those Sunday evenings, those outpourings of the heart—will be given back to us for ever!

Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say I said something wrong Now I long for yesterday

I hope I die before I get old

She calls, unanswered. He texts: "Are you ok?" . She: "I am ok, I just wanted to feel your presence.." . He: "Yeah, I'm here..I'm still here..".

You urge time when you are expecting your salary, you urge time when you want to meet your beloved, you urge time when you wish to see your children grow up. And when time is urged, you astonishly exclaim! Maybe this is the true theory of relativity..

I couldn't tell what my mother was feeling. I only knew that I felt as if I had found some precious, mysterious thing I could never name, but that I had searched for my entire life, and now it was finally within reach.

Ich liebe dich ja...wie heißt es doch, wenn man einen Zweig abbricht und die Blätter abreißt? Von Herzen, mit Schmerzen, über alle Maßen. (S.69)

Ich möchte schlafen, aber du mußt tanzen." [ Hyazinthen ]

She was] a strange butterfly which had flown across his garden and which his eyes had continued to follow long after it had disappeared from sight.

In the end the soul is itself the longing of the soulless for salvation.

Everywhere bourgeois society insists on the exertion of will; only love is supposed to be involuntary, pure immediacy of feeling. In its longing for this, which means a dispensation from work, the bourgeois idea of love transcends bourgeois society.

Lord, hear me out, and hear me out this day:From me to Thee's a long and terrible way.

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

Evelyn said, "What's it called when a person needs a … person … when you want to be touched and the … two are like one thing and there isn't anything else at all anywhere?" Alicia, who had read books, thought about it. "Love," she said at length. She swallowed. "It's a madness. It's bad.

How could I possibly gone this long without the touch of another human being? I've been living my life like a zombie

At the same time, she couldn't help but feel sad about his admission of a studied shallowness, a penchant for the one-dimensional. It made her long all the more for her midnight man. Eddie

When you were here before Couldn't look you in the eye You're just like an angel Your skin makes me cry

And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps

Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.

How safe for the preserving of heavenly grace to fly from human approval, and not to long after the things which seem to win admiration abroad, but to follow with all earnestness those things which bring amendment of life and heavenly fervour!

Beware, therefore, lest thou strive too earnestly after some desire which thou hast conceived, without taking counsel of Me; lest haply it repent thee afterwards, and that displease thee which before pleased, and for which thou didst long as for a great good.

Love is only satisfied with what is infinite. In our love of God we taste this, and in suffering we long not only for more love, but for infinite love, a love that includes every tear ever shed and every loss ever felt.

Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even if it's the worst possible condition, because, if it is, we're finished anyway, whether we go on the journey or not, and it's better to die having made the journey we're been longing for than to be stifled by our longing.