Quotes about Longing

It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her.

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

That's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me.

Everybody wants something.

How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

You will not find what you want in the world, only in the Father.

Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

for he would have betrayed the gospel. Then I watched as one of the Methodist congregations I attended built a $120,000 stained-glass window. Wesley would not have been happy. I stared at that window. I longed for Jesus to break out of it, to free himself, to come to rise from the dead… again.

Our deepest longing is not for sex but for love. We can live without sex, but we cannot live without love. And

She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her life trying to stay that age.