Quotes About Longing

Human desire is infinite by its nature; it cannot be satisfied. You must take your stand against it because you cannot satisfy it.

Preliminary 1: Determining Your Desire

desire—wanting something that appears to be good for some purpose or pleasure.

As a result, he is hardly ever happy in the place where he is, something in him is already moving forward to the next place, and yet he is never going towards something, always away, away

The funny thing is, I don't care too much. You think you love something so badly, but when it's gone you find out you don't care so much.

Poetry reaches to the realm beyond the world of sight and sound to reveal what our senses long to see and hear. It is the language not so much of the sublime, but of the truly real.

Marriage requires a radical commitment to love our spouses as they are, while longing for them to be what they are not yet. Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another's glory or toward degrading each other.

Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained

How I long for more time... but time is a commodity even my vast fortune cannot afford.

Zijn grote gouden speer...gevuld met vuur... Werd verscheidene malen in me gestoken... Tot diep in mijn binnenste... Een zo overweldigende heerlijkheid dat je onmogelijk kon wensen dat het ophield.

Jiwa manusia mendambakan penguasaan atas cangkang jasmaniahnya

We're adults, Robert. You can admit it. You feel a longing. I see it in your eyes. A deep, carnal hunger." She smiled. "I feel it too. And that craving is about to be satisfied." "It is?" He felt emboldened and took a step toward her. "Completely." She held up a room-service menu. "I ordered everything they've got.

If you don't get what you want, you suffer. And even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever." (Peaceful Warrior)

I desperately want to talk to her now. I want to ask her who it was who so deftly crafted and shaped the legend that was our love.

Nothing had ever been so welcome by its absence.

I was always waiting for you, she sent.

My days were but heartbeats to you. I hated you for that.

Sol had spent his life willing the return of things unreturnable. He remembered the day he had come upon Sarai folding Rachel's toddler clothes and setting them in a box in the attic, and he recalled her tears and his own sense of loss for the child they still had but who was lost to them through the simple arrow of time. Sol

He wished he were home in Charleston, listening to the Dave Brubeck Quartet on the stereo and reading Bruce Catton.

When there's something or someone, when there's anything that makes you happy, you don't let a continent or an ocean or an empty pocket keep you apart

WHEREVER I AM, I AM WHAT IS MISSING.

I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.

Now I wished for my boy Xury, and the long boat with the shoulder of mutton sail, with which I sailed above a thousand miles on the coast of Africk; but this was in vain.

Missing feels like a sad spot in my heart...Missing means I love her.