The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshipers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.
C.S. LewisTag: words reading books literature longing
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
Roger de RabutinTag: love separation longing absence long-distance-love
The Portuguese call it saudade: a longing for something so indefinite as to be indefinable. Love affairs, miseries of life, the way things were, people already dead, those who left and the ocean that tossed them on the shores of a different land — all things born of the soul that can only be felt.
Anthony De SaAnd, 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.
J.L. CarrTag: wisdom melancholy longing
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.
O, that I were a glove upon that hand
That I might touch that cheek!
Tag: love touch desire longing glove hand-in-glove
We look before and after,
And pine for what is not;
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell
Of saddest thought.
Tag: pain laughter sadness longing
...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.
Marisha PesslTag: wal-mart heathcliff wuthering-heights longing first-love
There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.
Kahlil GibranTag: longing
There's nothing good about goodnight when it means goodbye.
Jeff ThomasTag: sad goodbye longing parting goodnight
Don't let's ask for the moon! We have the stars!
Olive Higgins ProutyTag: love loss stars moon longing
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