Longing Quotes - Page 3

Fair as the moon and joyful as the light;
Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;
Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams.

The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

Desire is when you work hard to achieve something. For an achievable object, its more about making a sudden decision.

You are ice and fire
The touch of you burns my hands like snow

I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be.

I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.

A pine tree standeth lonely
In the North on an upland bare;
It standeth whitely shrouded
With snow, and sleepeth there.

It dreameth of a Palm tree
Which far in the East alone,
In the mournful silence standeth
On its ridge of burning stone.

A mí me ha tocado no estar contigo;
no tengo miradas para encontrarte
ni hay cosa en que pueda reconocerte.

Min ene sko knirker af mangel på stjerneskud

There’s nothing like that feeling of waiting for a guy. It’s the loneliest feeling in the world. Holding that cell phone in your hand as you take out the trash, use the bathroom, change the litter box. Fearful that the one second you aren’t looking will be when they call. Pathetic. And something I have done as recently as last week.

It suddenly struck me that Dawsey is a lonesome person. I think it may be that he has always been lonely, but he didn't mind before, and now he minds.

I miss you in waves and tonight I’m drowning. You left me fending for my life and it feels like you’re the only one who can bring me back to the shore alive.

My library is an archive of longings.

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

I have become a sour woman. I take no joy in meat nor mead, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.

You know what, your imagination works faster than your mind.

Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious!

There’s a time when it all comes together - what you long for and what you fear - and as tentative as you may feel, you’re driven to continue. At that point, the need to forge ahead is the only option, and your direction is defined despite yourself.

We fear what we long for. This is the paradox.

After a dazed moment, Specialist Kit Murphy put his arms loosely around her, and Josie Schaeffer clung to him, knowing this man was not her husband, that her husband was never coming back, but for now she was as close to him as she could get and she would not let him go.