Selected longing quotes

1. What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace?

2. May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

3. Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.

4. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

5. Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.

6. The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.

7. Time, you old gipsy man, Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day?

8. It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

9. I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

10. O, she is the antidote to desire.

11. So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.

12. Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.

13. A mighty pain to love it is, And 't is a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.

14. Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea.

15. My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis for object strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.

16. Come back, true love! Sweet youth, return!- But time goes on, and will, unheeding, Though hands will reach, and eyes will yearn, And the wild days set true hearts bleeding.

17. There's the wind on the heath, brother; if I could only feel that, I would gladly live for ever.

18. In secret we met In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? With silence and tears.

19. I just need your star for a day.

20. I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright.

21. Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

22. I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.

23. 'We are Fragile, everyone. We all long for something more. Things are said and things are done and the pieces hit the floor. See how fragile.'

24. Remember only this of our hopeless love That never till Time is done Will the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one.

25. Oh, it's home again, and home again, America for me! I want a ship that's westward bound to plow the rolling sea, To the blessed Land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.

26. But oh! as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.

27. There is joy over disappointment And delight in hopes that were vain. Each poet is glad there was no cure To stop his lonely pain. For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.

28. Touch me, hold me. How my open arms ache! Try to fall for me.

29. How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present?

30. What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?

31. So hard to find my way, Now that I'm all on my own. I saw you just the other day, My how you have grown, Cast my memory back there, Lord Sometimes I'm overcome thinking 'bout Making love in the green grass Behind the stadium with you My brown eyed girl You my brown eyed girl.

32. I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear the lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.

33. Absence from whom we love is worse than death, And frustrate hope severer than despair.

34. If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me

35. . . . I'll raise my arms and give you my chest and throat and wait, and I've been so old for so long for you, for you, I want it fast and right through me- Oh do it, do it you motherfuckers do it you fuckers finally, finally, finally.

36. Death will come when thou art dead, Soon, too soon - Sleep will come when thou art fled; Of neither would I ask the boon I ask of thee, beloved Night - Swift be thine approaching flight, Come soon, soon!

37. Rarely, rarely, comest thou, Spirit of Delight! Wherefore hast thou left me now Many a day and night? Many a weary night and day 'Tis since thou are fled away.

38. My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer; A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.

39. I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore. ~ 5

40. Elvis are you out there somewhere Looking like a happy man? In the snow with Rosebud And King of the Mountain.

41. Never the time and the place And the loved one all together!

42. Oh, to be in England Now that April's there.

43. It is the future that creates his present. All is an interminable chain of longing.

44. Be it granted me to behold you again in dying, Hills of home!

45. By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me; For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-bells they say: 'Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!'

46. You made me come to Paris. You pestered me to start living again. Well, now it's up to you to make my life livable. You mustn't let three whole days go by without coming to see me. ... You wanted me to take notice of you. Now nothing else matters to me. I know you're alive and I feel emptiness inside me when you're away.

47. The boat that took my love away He sent again to me To tell me that he would not sleep Alone beneath the sea.

48. Oh, bring again my heart's content, Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!

49. He comes with western winds, with evening's wandering airs, With that clear dusk of heaven that brings the thickest stars; Winds take a pensive tone and stars a tender fire And visions rise and change which kill me with desire -

50. and you kissed me shy as though I'd never been your lover

51. Give me, give me God's own country! there to live and there to die,

52. God, beam me up!