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Quotes about Longing

At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing I were a Negro, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night.
— Jack Kerouac
All I hope, Dean, is someday we'll be able to live on the same street with our families and get to be a couple of oldtimers together.
— Jack Kerouac
he wanted so much to live...
— Jack Kerouac
I want to marry a girl, I told them, so I can rest my soul with her till we both get old.
— Jack Kerouac
Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonably
— John Keats
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
— George Bernard Shaw
Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.
— Thomas Merton
You can be the most grateful person in the world, but if you have not arrived at the place God wants you to be, to do the thing God has destined you and only you to do, that longing will never go away.
— Bishop TD Jakes
sometimes it's the one thing we've never had, but have wanted for so long, that has the power to disappoint us the most.
— Tamera Alexander
She looked at him for the longest time, and he sensed she wanted to tell him something, so he kept quiet, giving her ample opportunity. She finally stood on tiptoe and kissed him, high on the cheek, about as far away from his mouth as she could get. But that was okay. She'd kissed him. It was a start. And he'd take it.
— Tamera Alexander
I love beautiful; always have. I never saw why I should hate what I wish I had. Love it harder. Work your way closer. Clasp your hands around it tighter. Till you find a way to make it yours.
— Tana French
It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without deficiency, no longing. This is the secret of the human heart, Rom.
— Ted Dekker