“All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake.” BeautifulBeautySadnessPoetSweetLongingAwakeBeautiful ThingsWisestSweet Music Author:Richard Chenevix Trench
“O sweet everlasting Voices, be still; Go to the guards of the heavenly fold And bid them wander obeying your will, Flame under flame, till Time be no more.” StillsVoiceSweetLongingWanderFlamesHeavenlyEverlastingFoldsObeying Book:Early Poems Source: Early Poems
“artists try to say things that can't be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling; a taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.” TryingSaidFeelingsArtistLeftKnowingColorSweetTasteLongingPainfulFrustrationCaptureFragileGestures Author:Alan Alda
“Sexual desire may burn like fire, but when you give a thought to when you are ill, then your excitement dies down. Fame and fortune may be sweet as candy, but when you give a thought to when you die, then their flavor is like chewing wax. Therefore, if people are usually concerned about death and illness, this can also dissolve unreal activities and develop longing for the way.” PeopleIfsWayGivingMayDesireDiesFireSweetActivityFameConcernedLongingFortuneIllIllnessExcitementTaoismFlavorCandyUnrealChewingSexual Desire Author:Zicheng Hong
“How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship will continue, notwithstanding the certainty of death and the passage of time. Men may write love songs and sing them. They may yearn and hope and dream. But all of this will be only a romantic longing unless there is an exercise of authority that transcends the powers of time and death.” IfsMenWritingMayDreamSongSweetExerciseAuthorityLongingCertaintyPassagesOur RelationshipAssuranceComfortingHopes And DreamsPassage Of TimeLdsCertainty Of Death Author:Gordon B. Hinckley
“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.” YearsStatesSeemsAirStreetsSweetTasteLongingDistanceHungerTeenageTeenage YearsThese Streets Book:Saturday Source: Saturday
“I felt instantly at home, and wanted only to dismiss Alistair, along with the rest of Justice Hall, that I might have a closer look at the shelves.I had to content myself instead with a strolling perusal, my hands locked behind my back to keep them from reaching out for Le Morte D'Arthur, Caxton 1485 or the delicious little red-and-gilt Bestiary, MS Circa 1250 or.... If I took one down, I should be lost. So I looked, like a hungry child in a sweet shop, and trailed out on my guide's heels with one longing backward glance.” IfsShouldLooksChildrenLittlesHomeHandsMightWantedLostFeltJusticeBehindsSweetRedLongingGuidesHungryShopsReachingHallsReach OutLockedHeelsShelvesGlancesDeliciousStrollingArthurBehind My Back Author:Laurie R. King
“We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes...” SometimesHomeDreamTurnsKnowingLandStrangeSweetLongingCornersStrangerGlimpseOur DreamsFamiliarityStranger In A Strange LandLonging For HomeWhere Home Is Author:Madeleine L'Engle
“The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.” LightSweetShapesLongingCleanDesertAcheGeology Book:Into the Wild Source: Into the Wild