Best 608 quotes in «longing quotes» category

You're gone and you left me. My heart has dissipated. The only thing I can feel is the blood rushing through my veins and the strings that hold my fragile heart together.

you’re gone and your unfinished poem lies alone on my desk— empty of tears, I only hope it rains today

Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you.

You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all things, it is the scene which seems to be seen best for the first time: a curtain parts and what had not yet ever been seen is devoured by the eyes: the scene consecrates the object I am going to love. The context is the constellation of elements, harmoniously arranged that encompass the experience of the amorous subject... Love at first sight is always spoken in the past tense. The scene is perfectly adapted to this temporal phenomenon: distinct, abrupt, framed, it is already a memory (the nature of a photograph is not to represent but to memorialize)... this scene has all the magnificence of an accident: I cannot get over having had this good fortune: to meet what matches my desire. The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other... In this moment, everything is suspended: time, law, prohibition: nothing is exhausted, nothing is wanted: all desires are abolished, for they seem definitively fulfilled... A moment of affirmation; for a certain time, though a finite one, a deranged interval, something has been successful: I have been fulfilled (all my desires abolished by the plenitude of their satisfaction).

You told me mornings were the best time to break your own heart. So here I am, smoking your brand of cigarettes for the scent. I wonder if you still sing Beatles songs as you make coffee. You said your mother used to sing them to you when you couldn’t sleep, nineteen years before we met, twenty before you moved your clothes out of our closet while I was at work. By the way, I hate you for leaving all the photographs on the fridge. Taking them down felt like peeling off new scabs, like slapping a sunburn. I spent so many nights carving your body into pillows, I can promise you nothing feels like sleeping with your arm around me and your breath in my ear. Still, it’s comforting to know we sleep under the same moon, even if she’s so much older when she gets to me. I like to imagine she’s seen you sleeping and wants me to know you’re doing well.

You think embracing the longing while waiting for the right man is impossible? Well obviously you didn't get the memo.

You want help? Ask for help. You want love? Ask for love. If you want anything from the universe, anything from yourself, you must first ask.

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.

You will come After the storm You will lay your head On my knees You will come to seek All I am And I would breathe you like, Opening the window, I was breathing the rain.

All human eyes have longing in them.

All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure.

All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.

A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.

And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...

as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves

Coolidge expressed his "sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine.

Bound in primal longings, we pine to be understood by ourselves.

But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn't know better when the answers were so obvious all along.

As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to have come equipped with that famously ticking clock. Unlike so many of my friends, I did not ache with longing whenever I saw an infant. (Though I did ache with longing, it is true, whenever I saw a good used-book shop)

A soldier's longing to talk about his experiences of battle is a wound that never heals.

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.

But for my sighs, I should be drowned by my tears; and but for my tears, I should be burned by my sighs.

But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.

But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.

Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing.

Desire and longing are the whips of God.

Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.

Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back

Down deep in every soul has a hidden longing, impulse, and ambition to do something fine and enduring...If you are willing, great things are possible to you.

Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one.

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

Even a painful longing is some form of presence.

Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.

Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.

Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.

Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.

He who is too well off is always longing for something new.

How can one live without hope and longing?

God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.

He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is truly called one who is bound upstream.

How do you stop longing for what you absolutely know you can't get? Which really means: How do you absolutely know you can't-and won't-get it, not ever? How do you pinch out that wisp of feeble, ruthless hope?

How wonderful," he purred. "I've been longing to speak to you for days, Princess Cecelia." "And I've been wanting to kick you in the shin for days.

How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas our greatest happinesses spring from such longings-being in love with one who is oblivious of you.

I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.

I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.

I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.