825 Quotes About Longing

There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.

Dorian used to watch you like a starving man who wants meat. Now he looks at you like he wants seconds.

I've always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home in myself. I've worked hard at being the hero of my own life. But every time I checked the register of displaced persons, I was still on it. I didn't know how to belong. Longing? Yes. Belonging? No.

And, at such a time, for a few of us there will always be a tugging at the heart—knowing a precious moment had gone and we not there. We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours for ever—the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on belfry floor, a remembered voice, a loved face. They’ve gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass.

I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin' after you.

Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.

He wanted nothing more than to reignite the flame between them. To strike the match and burn for her, and with her, until they were both nothing but a pile of hot coals. His hands literally itched to reach out and grab her the way a man is allowed to grab a woman that's his.

I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.

I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of her feet against my legs when she climbed into bed.I missed the shape of her shadow where it fell across the page of my book. I missed the smell of her hair and the sound of her breath and my Rilke on her nightstand and her wet towel thrown over the back of her desk chair. It felt like I should be sated after having a whole day with her, but it just made me miss her more.