825 Quotes About Longing

Tears flashed into her eyes. "That's very dear of you. It's sweet to be remembered when one is away." In her voice there was the heart-breaking sweetness one sometimes hears in lovely, gentle old songs.

Sensuality says what words cannot.

Can’t tell what was liked and where; but something was just liked unwittingly.

I will lead a man to dear one --I don't want the little joy --And I'll quietly lay to sleepThe glad, tired little boy.In a chilly room once moreI will pray to Mother of God,It is hard to be a hermit,To be happy is also hard.Only fiery sleep will come to me,I'll enter a temple on the hill,Five-domed, white, and stone-hewn,On the paths remembered well.

Miró hacia la biblioteca. Aquella sabiduría no calmaría nunca su fuego; siglos y siglos de palabras no podían satisfacer aquel deseo imperativo e irracional.

I find myself still softly searching for my delinquent palaces.

Compromised by longing & looking for languageto note the differences in the map: the pointed sprucestipped against the moon this time& the water halflit, star-slid—but it makes no differencein the telling.

If I can't be a corpse, then I wish hat I was a baby, curled up in some other woman's womb, pure and longed for.

My fingers sting where I feel your fingers have beenGhostly fingers moving my limbsOh god I miss youOh god I miss youOh god I miss youOh god I miss youOh god I miss you