Quotes about Longing

We were like starving women who come to believe that food will cure all present pains, as well as heal all the deficiency sores of long standing.

I don't know how long I looked for Toni every day at noontime, sitting on the stoop. Eventually, her image receded into that place from which all my dreams are made.

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve. Her life and her values could not bring her to that, she thought; she had never found beauty in longing for the impossible and had never found the possible to be beyond her reach.

It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single glimpse of clean, hard, radiant competence. She had fits of tortured longing for a friend or enemy with a mind better than her own.

I want to drink. I want a woman like you. I want to go down, as far as you can drag me.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

Love will fan the flame, and that flame will warm the heart that's waiting.

Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves.