Quotes about Longing

O God, You Who are the truth, make me one with You in love everlasting. I am often wearied by the many things I hear and read, but in You is all that I long for. Let the learned be still, let all creatures be silent before You; You alone speak to me.

If you set your love on worldly things, they will not satisfy.

each of us, at our core, longs to be loved, needed, understood, affirmed—to have intimate connections that leave us feeling more alive and human.

I am happy in my prison of passion

Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel

It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

Most people'll run from their own mother to get to hug death by the neck. They cant wait to see him.

Your old man called me. He wanted you to call home. People in hell want ice water.

You can think of me as a faithless slut if you like. I've taken a new lover. He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes he is.