Quotes about Longing

But the tender grace of a day that is deadWill never come back to me.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.

Once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul thro' My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.

No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.

Nichelle staring at Jack.

When you are bored, restless, longing for something more, unfulfilled, feeling like you've settled, haunted by the sense of being trapped in your own life, these are the deep waters of your soul speaking to you, telling you something is wrong, something is missing, something needs to change.

We spend so much time searching and longing for solid ground, only to discover it's better than that. There's Spirit. You try this, you try that. You throw yourself into it, and you hold it loosely. You give it everything you have as you acknowledge that this is what we're doing now, who knows what will come next?

Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air

Far as we aim our signs to reach, Far as we often make them reach, Across the soul-from-soul abyss, There is an aeon-limit set Beyond which they are doomed to miss. Two souls may be too widely met. That sad-with-distance river beach With mortal longing may beseech; It cannot speak as far as this.

Not far, but near, I stood and saw it all, Behind low boughs the trees let down outside; And the sweet pang it cost me not to call And tell you that I saw does still abide. But 'tis not true that thus I dwelt aloof, For the wood wakes, and you are here for proof.