825 Quotes About Longing

I like longingclimbing up the railings of sound and colorcatching into my open mouththe frozen scentI like my lonelinesssuspended higherthan a bridgeembracing the sky with its armsand my love walking barefoot over the snow

I will never claim to know what you are thinking. I only hope I am on your mind.

I wonderif you ever read my poemsand wish they were writtenfor you.

30 cents, two transfers, loveThinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and asked the driver for two transfers before discovering that I was alone.

In solitude every fear, every longing, becomes exaggerated.

It had been dark at the beach for hours, he hadn't been smoking much and it wasn't headlights – but before she turned away, he could swear he saw light falling on her face, the orange light just after sunset that catches a face turned to the west, watching the ocean for someone to come in on the last wave of the day, in to shore and safety.

So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the shadowy solitude my longing for light grew so frantic that I could rest no more, and I lifted entreating hands to the single black ruined tower that reached above the forest into the unknown outer sky. And at last I resolved to scale that tower, fall through I might; since it were better to glimpse the sky and perish, than to live without even beholding day.

Our eyes see the future we desireAnd if yearning is enough, turn blind entireTo any threats that challenge our hope.Oh, how small indeed is Reality's scope.

Life would be enough to know what you do in a day.