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Quotes About Yearning

Ich möchte Ihnen so viel sagen, aber ich bin ausgeleert, sobald ich zu sprechen anfange. Alles ist wie weggeblasen. Sehen Sie: ich finde Sie schön, zum Beispiel; aber ich kann mich nicht wirklich darüber freuen. Es ist, als ob mir etwas fehlte ... (S. 64).
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I love you enormously. I'm spending a little time away from you—quite absurd and contingent. I would so like to see you, my stubborn little thing, and tell you my stories and hold your hand. You are my love, you good little being. Far from you I measure the nothingness of the flesh, and I am not having much fun.
~ Unknown
My body turns and yearns for a sleep That won't ever come It's never over, My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder It's never over, all my riches for her smiles When I slept so soft against her It's never over, All my blood for the sweetness of her laughter It's never over, She is the tear that hangs inside my soul forever
~ Jeff Buckley
This was just no fun. I wanted my brain back.
~ Jeff Lindsay
If only I was capable of love, how I would have loved Harry.
~ Jeff Lindsay
If everyone else in the world were to mysteriously disappear, I would feel irritated about it only because there would be no one to make me doughnuts.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Deke looked at me anxiously, reminding me very much of a large and handsome dog who needs a stick to fetch.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Prea multe mâini dornice s? te pip?ie È™i prea puÈ›in? afecÈ›iune.
~ Jeffrey Archer
Tulip's nose pressed up against a
~ Jeffrey Archer
We had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us... calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
We lost them in the vastness of their dresses and found them again, squeezed the pulp of their bodies and inhaled the perfume of their exertion. A few of us grew brave enough to insert our legs between theirs and to press our agony against them.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
He hadn't suffered the eternity of the ring about to be picked up, didn't know the heart rush of hearing that incomparable voice suddenly linked with his own, the sense it gave of being too close to even see her, of being actually inside her ear.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
They had killed themselves over the failure to find a love that none of us could ever be.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
but the corset had the odd power of making her seem somehow more naked; it turned her into a forbidden, armored creature with a soft side inside he had to hunt for.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
We just want to live. If anyone would let us.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
But then she came closer and we saw the light in her eyes we have been looking for ever since.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
In desperate moods he asked his mirror why the girl he was crazy about was the only girl not crazy about him.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
When she smiled, her mouth showed too many teeth, but at night Trip Fontaine dreamed of being bitten by each one.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Even though he tasted mysterious depths in Bonnie's mouth, he didn't search them out because he didn't want her to stop kissing him.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
A few of us grew brave enough to insert our legs between theirs and to press our agony against them.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
It had to do with Leonard. With how she felt about him and how she couldn't tell anyone. With how much she liked him and how little she knew about him. With how desperately she wanted to see him and how hard it was to do so.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
compatriots in the search for a little passion on earth.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
It was still years before Desdemona, cutting cucumbers, would lean against the corner of the kitchen table and, without realizing it, would lean in a little harder, and after that would find herself taking up that position every day, the table corner snug between her legs.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides