Quotes about Longing

I don't miss doing things with her. I miss doing nothing with her.

Desire grows by what it feeds on.

If only she were a boy, speeding in khaki by Carol's side to the western front! She had wished that in a burst of romance when Jem had gone, without perhaps, meaning it. She meant it now. There were moments when waiting at home, in safety and comfort, seemed an unendurable thing.

And yet... you wouldn't want it to stop hurting... you wouldn't want to forget your little mother even if you could.

but youth yearned to youth.

It's hard enough now, so I won't make it any harder. I want to go out so much—everything seems to be calling to me, 'Anne, Anne, come out to us. Anne, Anne, we want a playmate'—but it's better not. There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there?

them: the girls whose hearts were to be wrung were yet fair little maidens a-star with hopes and dreams.

We people aren't too different from the cows, are we? Never content with what we have, always leaning through the fence in search of more.

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.

The words of the Bible are sources of spirit. They carry fire to the soul and evoke our lost dignity out of our hidden origins. Illumined, we suddenly remember, we suddenly recover the strength of endless longing to sense eternity in time.