Quotes About Longing

A new life! That was what he wanted. That was what he was waiting for. Surely he

Bronze-limbed and well-knit, like a statue wrought by a Grecian, he stood on the sand with his back to the moon, and out of the foam came white arms that beckoned to him, and out of the waves rose dim forms that did him homage. Before him lay his shadow, which was the body of his Soul, and behind him hung the moon in the honey-coloured air.

Les personnes qui m'ont adoré (...) se sont obstinées à vivre bien au-delà du terme de mon amour pour elles ou de leur amour pour moi.

He wanted to escape from himself.

And yet it seems to me to be the one thing I have been looking for all my life.

Some one has killed herself for love of you. I wish that I had ever had such an experience.

If you are not too long, I will wait for you all my life.

I envy everyone secretly, I secretly love everything.

Odero, si potero; si non, inuitus amabo.

Tunc amo, tunc odi frustra, quod amare necesse est; tunc ego, sed tecum, mortuus esse uelim.

Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.

I can live neither with you, nor without you.

He gazes at her lips, and knows that gazing Is not enough. He marvels at her fingers, Her hands, her wrists, her arms, bare to the shoulder, And what he does not see he thinks is better. But still she flees him, swifter than the wind

To feed her love on melancholy sorrow

dumque sitim sedare cupit, sitis altera crevit

Saepe tepent alii iuvenes: ego semper amavi,/ Et si, quid faciam, nunc quoque, quaeris, amo.

How I wish your eyes were able to pierce deep down to my heart and catch a glimpse of your father's anxiety.

She saw Narcissus roaming through the country, / Saw him, and burned, and followed him in secret / Burning the more she followed, as when sulfur / Smeared on the rim of torches, catches fire / When other fire comes near it. Oh, how often / She wanted to come near with coaxing speeches, / Make soft entreaties to him! / But her nature / Sternly forbids...

Se, mikä on sallittua, ei ole mieluisaa. Mikä on kiellettyä, siihen on palava halu.

Desgraciado de mí! El niño tiene flechas certeras. Yo me abraso, y el Amor reina en mi corazón deshabitado.

They're pretty near the color of your eyes. Never mind my eyes. Can't help it, ma'am. Not since South Fork

When you're in love, it's not just about the messing around in the sack, it's about how empty you feel when they're gone.

I watched you while you were sleeping and you looked completely at peace. I wish I could feel that. I wish I could close my eyes and feel at peace. But I can't. I can't feel anything if I'm not with you, and even then all I can do is want something that I don't think I can ever have, at least not now. So I left this, and my peace, with you. Stark.

I closed my eyes and rested my head against his chest, wishing sincerely that Rhiannon would get hit by a bus.