Quotes About Yearning

When he pictured her so many thousands of miles away he plummeted, so much so that he had an overwhelming urge to wrap his arms around her, to freeze with her, even for an instant, in an embrace witnessed by his favorite Surya.

So che sarei insoddisfatta, incompleta, se non la imparassi.

It's not easy to make friends when you're an adult writer outside of academia, especially when you work alone in a little room for twelve hours a day, and so I wrote toward what I most longed for.

We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too.

Sometimes, a stage curtain parts and you see: life could be better if you had more. Usually, I think, we can get just as good a different way. But tricks, they do not always work.

I dream about finding an exception and finding someone who would make me believe in love and realize that it can work out.

Couldn't I for once have you and the work at the same time?

My mind feels like a beehive without the buzz.

What they ask you for is actions, proofs, works, and all you can produce are transformed tears.

In 'Mad Men,' we watch a group of people who live in a prosperous society that offers happiness and order like never before in history and yet are full of anxiety and unease. They feel there is something more, something beyond. And they feel stuck.

Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.

All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection

Out on bail, fresh outta jail, California dreamin

When I was in my early twenties I didn't have a need to rub together, back when my life was a series of wants and whims. But recently I had felt overwhelmed by longings that seemed to lunge out of me in the most awkward situations.

There is a difference between desire and desperation.

Tookie's heart bounded. her knees wobbled, her heart started to flutter, and she felt a warm gush through her core. Try not to suck on his thumb again!

Las palabras son a las cosas lo que el deseo es al objeto de deseo.

Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough

Reality is a nice place to visit, but I sure would not want to live there

Her kisses left something to be desired... the rest of her.

Dancing is the perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

A kiss may not be the truth but it is what we wish were true.