825 Quotes About Longing

Each day the pair would meet at 2pm at the exact halfway point between the villages and stand a hundred yards apart, staring longingly at each other, yearning for the time when the pestilence would pass.

The eye of the mystic who is enraptured in love sees traces of eternal beauty everywhere and listens to the mute eloquence of everything created. Whatever he mentions, his goal is the essence of the beloved—like Zulaykha, who, longing for Joseph's beauty, applied to him "the name of every thing, from rue-seed to aloes-wood."If she piled up a hundred thousand names— her meaning and intention was always Joseph. (M 6:4022-37)

Min ene sko knirker af mangel på stjerneskud

And I would let him go and let him return. Over and over again, until there were no spaces between him going and returning and the rhythm of our coming together and separating made a music all its own that would fill through my days of waiting.

Lilah elbowed her in the side. “Better wipe your mouth, you’re drooling.” Roxie lifted her middle finger. “I’m showing my support.” Lilah waggled her brows. “I bet she wouldn’t mind you supporting her all the way to the bedroom.

When it came to Mel, she just wanted.

I forcibly conjured memories of that lush world, but they had become bittersweet. I knew that those smiles would fade, those adventures would end. All days on Mirabilis led to Opera. To look at them was to look back on the path that had led to howling and skittering and sleepless nights. The ache to return to a time long gone was almost worse than fear.

...how much of my longings are for a self that looks like other selves...

There is a poem etched behind my eyelids where I meet my beloved each nightas I sleep۔تھجّد