#longing

"They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now"

"I'll miss looking through the forest–your green and hazel eyes. I love the way they shimmered and changed shade with your mood, and how I could see the desire in your emerald gaze.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz"

"You are ice and fire The touch of you burns my hands like snow"

"Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will."

"I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be."

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

"I am running after you, and life, in desperate pursuit. My dream is that someday you will both turn and let me catch you. That dream carries me through every night... I have enclosed a hundred kisses in this letter. You must count them out carefully and not lose any."

"There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you."

"Fair as the moon and joyful as the light;Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams."

"I will never claim to know what you are thinking. I only hope I am on your mind."

"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."

"Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury."

"The days passed in a dream. I pictured our reunion again and again, played it out in my mind over and over until I’d almost worn a groove in my thoughts, so deep that it seemed the only thing I could think of was our reunion. Anticipation is a gift. Perhaps there is none greater. Anticipation is born of hope. Indeed it is hope’s finest expression. In hope’s loss, however, is the greatest despair."

"If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it."

"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."

"I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals."

"One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen."

"…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad."

"The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness."

"She’s twelve hours in the future, and exactly half a world away. No matter how hard I try, I will always be a part of her past."