Quotes about Longing

Yes, my mind was wandering. I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart someone with whom I could spend a little time without being afraid that i would lose him the next day. With that reassurance, the time would pass more slowly. We could be silent for a while because we'd know we had the rest of our lives together for conversation. I wouldn't have to worry about serious matters, about difficult decisions and hard words.

she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.

I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.

I open the curtains in my office and see people out there, some walking and holding hands without having to worry about the consequences. And I can't show my love

I'll make love with them in their houses or in the woods, I'll feel a certain degree of pleasure, but the moment I reach orgasm, the feeling of emptiness will return.

True love could withstand such a separation.

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

It's weird how when you don't hang out with someone for a while and then you do again, you miss them. It's like you forget to miss them until they show up to remind you.

What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?

We are bored with God because our heartsq do not hunger for God, seek God, love God

I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears. —"The Hound of Heaven" (FRANCIS THOMPSON, 1859—1907)

If only my heart were stone.