#longing

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #longing




And, at such a time, for a few of us there will always be a tugging at the heart—knowing a precious moment had gone and we not there. We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours for ever—the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on belfry floor, a remembered voice, a loved face. They’ve gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass.


J.L. Carr


#melancholy #wisdom #love

Till then I wasn't alive, I longed for you like the love sick moon pulls the tide


Corinne Bailey Rae


#love #love

While a common reaction to seeing a thing of beauty is to want to buy it, our real desire may be not so much to own what we find beautiful as to lay permanent claim to the inner qualities it embodies. Owning such an object may help us realise our ambition of absorbing the virtues to which it alludes, but we ought not to presume that those virtues will automatically or effortlessly begin to rub off on us through tenure. Endeavouring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love. What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.


Alain de Botton


#longing #architecture

Erotic longing is really a longing to merge with something greater than oneself. For every kind of love is a force that holds the promise of taking us beyond the limitations of our individual lives.


Julianne Davidow


#individual #lives #longing #love #merge

There's nothing good about goodnight when it means goodbye.


Jeff Thomas


#goodnight #longing #parting #sad #goodbye

She'd been in love with the man, and love is a scary thing. If not reciprocated, it can turn a person into a monster.


Michele Young-Stone


#loneliness #longing #loveless #love

...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.


Marisha Pessl


#heathcliff #longing #wal-mart #wuthering-heights #love

There I was, cold, isolated and desperate for something I knew I couldn't have. A solution. A remedy. Anything. ...I hated it. Alone and confused was the last place I wanted to be. Somehow I knew I deserved this.


Brian Krans


#blame #confusion #culpability #longing #blame

Fair as the moon and joyful as the light; Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams.


Christina Rossetti


#change #hope #longing #love #past

He was what the egotistical part of me had always longed for: danger, sexiness, popularity, style, unpredictability. The kind of man who'd always keep me guessing. Just one night with him and i'd already started to wonder if perhaps i'd spent the last two years in a comfortable coma.


Lucy Robinson


#longing #unpredictable #love