Quotes about Longing

"Never give up on something you can't go a day without thinking about."

Whatever is singing is found, awaiting the return of whatever is lost.

It took me a long time to see what was happening to me then. I have known no sudden revelations. No stroke of light has ever knocked me blind to the ground. But I know now that even then, in my hopelessness and sorrow, I began a motion of the heart toward my origins. Far from rising above them, I was longing to sink into them until I would know the fundamental things. I needed to know the original first chapter of the world.

I wept in my dreams. I dreamed you lay in the grave; I awoke, and the tears still poured down my cheeks. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you had left me; I awoke and I went on weeping long and bitterly. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you were still kind to me; I awoke, and still the flow of my tears streams on.

I know you'll never love me but maybe you'll stay for awhile.

The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.

Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.

Better than sweet tea on a veranda. I want to live at Belmont!

What would it be like to hold a different girl?

He imagined them sitting somewhere, just enjoying each other's company, her head on his chest, his arm around her. And he realized how desperately lonely he had become.