Quotes About Longing

She longed to know what at the moment was passing in his mind--in what manner he thought of her, and whether, in defiance of everything, she was still dear to him.

never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved him, as now, when all love must be vain.

Anne entered it with a sinking heart, anticipating an imprisonment of many months, and anxiously saying to herself, Oh! when shall I leave you again?

Quería saber de él cuando ya no había la más mínima oportunidad de tener noticias suyas. Estaba convencida de que habría podido ser feliz con él, cuando era probable que no se volvieran a ver.

Aquello parecía calculado exactamente para que ella comprendiese sus propios deseos, y jamás comprendió tan claramente que podía haberle amado como en aquel momento, cuando todo amor ya era imposible.

And I do envy him, Emma. In one respect he is the object of my envy.

If I may, so long as the woman you love lives, and lives for you, all the privilege I claim for my own sex, and it is not a very enviable one - you need not covet it, is that of loving longest when all hope is gone.

She longed to know what at the moment was passing in his mind—in what manner he thought of her, and whether, in defiance of everything, she was still dear to him. Perhaps he had been civil only because he felt himself at ease; yet there had been that in his voice which was not like ease. Whether he had felt more of pain or of pleasure in seeing her she could not tell, but he certainly had not seen her with composure.

She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.

but yet it appeared to her so natural, so inevitable to strive against an inclination of that sort unrequited, that she could not comprehend its continuing very long in equal force.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony. Half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever.

and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...

Her thoughts were all fixed on that one spot of Pemberley House, whichever it might be, where Mr. Darcy then was. She longed to know what at the moment was passing in his mind—in what manner he thought of her, and whether, in defiance of everything, she was still dear to him.

I have struggled in vain and I can bear it no longer. These past months have been a torment. I love you. Most ardently.

Acusaba la falta de su compañía cada día y casi a todas horas, y la necesitaba demasiado para sentir otra cosa que no fuese irritación

All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

Ah, iata, iar ma gandesc la el. Intotdeauna prima persoana la care ma gandesc! Cum ma mai prind asupra faptului!

And then there was him, the long and painful love of her life.

It was everything I had dreamed of, his hands snaking through my hair, my own wrapped around his back, unable to believe I had been given license to touch this boy I had loved for so long, license to hold him, to slip my tongue in his mouth, listen to him sigh with pleasure.

I cannot believe that I am actually excited at the sight of him. It has been long since anyone has made me feel THIS...and even though I know I've avoided THIS for fear of getting hurt, there's something about him that makes me want to trust him.

I suppose you can't help who you fancy, can you? And that was the bottom line, I fancied Nick. Fancied him more than I'd fancied anyone in years, and somehow, when someone gives you that tingly feeling in the pit of your stomach, you stop thinking about the rights and wrongs, the shoulds and should nots, and you just go with it.

Horrible as this is to admit, I think I cried less because my dad was dying than for the dad I had never had.

It just feels surreal. Every now and then it kind of hits me, but only for a short while, and then it carries on feeling like it didn't really happen, that he's going to walk in this evening and sit in front of the set drinking beer.