Longing Quotes - Page 2

She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.

…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible - magic to make the sanest man go mad.

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.
O, that I were a glove upon that hand
That I might touch that cheek!

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.

We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.

Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you.

Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you
catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a window of a farmhouse. In an
instant it's sucked back into the darkness behind and vanishes. But
if you close your eyes, that point of light stays with you, just
barely for a few moments.

I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin' after you.

Mika: Were you happy?
Hiro: I was so happy.

There are times when, that which we wish to be, will come to be, when we let it be.

There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness.

There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.

If you were mine, I'd never leave you, Prudence. I couldn't.

But no one can predict of a certainty what will happen. And none of it will change how I intend to spend the rest of my life. I will live it on my terms. And you... you can have all of me or nothing. I won't be an invalid any longer. Not even if it means losing you.

..he wanted her.
And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover. . . as more.

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.

We are beautiful because we are sons and daughters of God, not because we look a certain way.

In a dry and thirsty land, my soul thirsts for the living God, the living water.