Quotes About Longing

Ha az ember sokáig vágyik valamire, egy idÅ' után már nagyon nehéz nem vágyni rá; úgy értem, ráébredni és elfogadni, hogy már nem arra vágyunk, hanem másvalamit szeretnénk.

la carne tira mucho mientras sigue tirando, un

la carne tira mucho mientras sigue tirando

pero la impaciencia y la anhelación no son controlables y absorben.

Poetry drives out or suspends lust.

quien se acostumbra a vivir en la espera nunca consiente del todo su término, es como si le quitaran la mitad del aire.

DovBer Pinson

The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveller saying 'anywhere but here'.

It's a book which, no matter how many readers it will ever have, will never have enough.

there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and a time for dying: a night for silence and a day for singing but more than all(as all your more than eyes tell me)there is a time for timelessness

But I come with a dream in my eyes tonight And knock with a rose at the hopeless gate of your heart.

his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine

and what I want to know is how do you like your blue-eyed boy

And then there was that feeling one gets in a ride to a cemetery trailing a body in a coffin-an impatience with the dead, a longing to be back home where one could get on with the illusion that not death but daily life is the permanent condition.

Christ, what I wouldn't give to be something other than a human being.

Even after more than five hundred years in Heaven, Eleanor of Aquitaine still missed quarreling and dressing up. Eleanor missed strong, sweet smells. Eleanor missed feeling hot and being cold. Eleanor missed Henry. She missed life.

They waited for miles and miles of time

It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

I want a poem I can grow old in. I want a poem I can die in. -A WOMAN PAINTED ON LEAF (In a Time of Violence)

Wanting keeps the ego alive much more than having. The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more, keep buying, keep consuming.

nothing can satisfy the ego for long. As long as it runs your life, there are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other.

The very thing that gives you pleasure today will give you pain tomorrow, or it will leave you, so its absence will give you pain.