Quotes about Longing

Judiciously show a cat, milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

I went away, dear Agnes, loving you. I stayed away, loving you. I returned home, loving you!

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never have had it?

I cannot rest, I cannot stay, I cannot linger anywhere.

Yet the room was all in all to me, Estella being in it.

So Edith's mother lies unmentioned of her dear friends, who are deaf to the waves that are hoarse with repetition of their mystery, and blind to the dust that is piled upon the shore, and to the white arms that are beckoning, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away. But all goes on, as it was wont, upon the margin of the unknown sea; and Edith standing there alone, and listening to its waves, has dank weed cast up at her feet, to strew her path in life withal.

Rarely did that hour of the evening come, rarely did I wake at night, rarely did I look up at the moon, or stars, or watch the falling rain, or hear the wind, but I thought of his solitary figure toiling on, poor pilgrim, and recalled the words: "I'm a-going to seek her, fur and wide. If any hurt should come to me, remember that the last words I left for her was, 'My unchanged love is with my darling child, and I forgive her!

I have loved you all my life!

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me, the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth. But, since my duty has not been incompatible with the admission of that remembrance, I have given it a place in my heart.

Barkis suspira.

Christianity to me is like a hopeless love affair. It is infinitely dear and infinitely unattainable.

Passion gives you what you want, lust gives you what you desire, but only love gives you what you need.