#longing

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #longing




How can you lose me? You’ve owned me from the first moment I saw you.


Dianna Hardy


#belonging #bond #bonding #friendship #love

Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about him she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her.


Jeanne DuPrau


#city-of-ember #friendship #jeanne-duprau #lef-out #loneliness

My letters! all dead paper, mute and white! And yet they seem alive and quivering Against my tremulous hands which loose the string And let them drop down on my knee to-night. This said, -- he wished to have me in his sight Once, as a friend: this fixed a day in spring To come and touch my hand ... a simple thing, Yet I wept for it! -- this, ... the paper's light ... Said, Dear I love thee; and I sank and quailed As if God's future thundered on my past. This said, I am thine -- and so its ink has paled With lying at my heart that beat too fast. And this ... O Love, thy words have ill availed If, what this said, I dared repeat at last!


Elizabeth Barrett Browning


#friendship #letters #longing #love #promises

You will remember this when all else fades, this moment, here, together, by this well. There will be certain days, and certain nights, you’ll feel my presence near you, hear my voice. You’ll think you have imagined it and yet, inside you, you will catch an answering cry. On April evenings, when the rain has ceased, your heart will shake, you’ll weep for nothing, pine for what’s not there. For you, this life will never be enough, there will forever be an emptiness, where once the god was all in all in you.


John Banville


#languor #longing #memories #imagination

Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.


Brian Andreas


#longing #love #relationships #story-people #life

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.


Lois Lowry


#alone #belonging #jonah #life #lois-lowry

How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end.


Allegra Goodman


#longing #life

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.


Eric Hoffer


#anomie #belonging #the-true-believer #life

The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning.


Peter Høeg


#belief #bridges #certainty #fear #life

I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.


Salvador Plascencia


#love #sadness #love