All Quotes By Tag: Longing

“There in bed, happiness comes over me. Not like something that belongs to me, but like a wheel of fire rolling through the room and the world.”

“Eve was happy for her bestie. She just wished she had a guy who would look at her the way Seth looked at her friend, eyes all starry.No, that wasn’t it. Or it wasn’t completely it. Eve knew there were guys at school who liked her and would give her the Seth-look if she gave them the opportunity. But she didn’t want the look from any of those guys. She wanted the look she could give the look back to. She wanted to find a guy she could all-out love who would all-out love her back.”

“Imagination doesn’t always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.”

“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. ”

“There’s a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness.”

“The Memory Of You Is Like A Drug To Me”

“I would fight every angel between us until God said, “Yes.”

“To love is to think.And I almost forget to feel only from thinking about her.I don’t know what I want at all, even from her, and I don’t think about anything but her.I have a great animated distraction.When I want to meet her,I almost feel like not meeting her,So I don’t have to leave her afterwards.And I prefer thinking about her, because it’s like I’m afraid of her.I don’t know what I want at all, and I don’t want to know what I want. All I want to do is think about her.I’m asking nothing of nobody, not even her, except to think.”

“Mika: Were you happy?Hiro: I was so happy.”

“We are beautiful because we are sons and daughters of God, not because we look a certain way.”

“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”

“Stop longing. You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.”

“I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin’ after you.”

“I prayed for all his dreams to come true. I prayed that I would always be able to connect with him–even if I was no longer on earth.”

“I miss you in waves and tonight I’m drowning. You left me fending for my life and it feels like you’re the only one who can bring me back to the shore alive.”