825 Quotes About Longing

For the first time in my life, I felt the pain of missing people I had not yet left.

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

It suddenly struck me that Dawsey is a lonesome person. I think it may be that he has always been lonely, but he didn't mind before, and now he minds.

We meant to each other The way trophies do: On the day of.

Playful footsteps, a child’s footstepsdance over mud and mire.What seems a horror to eyes of age,brings joy to a child’s fire.

At times one feels happy being sad.

Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am I supposed to live without you? It was not a matter of the body; his body would carry on as usual. The problem was located in the word how: he would live, but without Elspeth the flavour, the manner, the method of living were lost to him. He would have to relearn solitude.

Mouth the shape of a kissI question if within you is any magicYou shine, you catch on fire, you disappear.

I've fallen for him. I've allowed him to burrow deep under my skin and into my heart. Kissing him won't change any of that, won't make it any less painful when the clock strikes midnight and I turn back into a commoner.