Quotes About Yearning

By the way, the town where Asklepios' sanitarium existed, I read now, is up in the mountains. Probably the climate was and is cool and moist; I read it's heavily wooded. I bet the stars are quite visible there. It's the place I yearn for. Out of memory.

The urge, the longing, to take another shower was overwhelming him.

All day I searched shopwindows, record bins, bookstores, even a Greek bakery for a hint of what I can't say.

No,' he said, 'memory's a poor thing to have. It's your own real hair and mouth and arms and eyes and hands I want. I didn't know I could ever love anything so much...

It might have been a new way for her heart to beat.

I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart.

She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.

All she knew was that she must be in love with someone, or she wouldn't feel so miserable.

this man who had so much that he wanted even more.

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would.

I did not want to voice a word that would lift the cover and reveal that hideous emotion I always felt for her, the underside of love.

How could he have gone around dopily believing he was making her happy when there was no justification for his feelings, when they were absurd, when, year in, year out, she was seething with hatred for their house?

Tits and cunts and legs and lips and mouths and tongues and assholes! How can I give up what I have never even had, for a girl, who delicious and provocative as once she may have been, will inevitably grow as familiar to me as a loaf of bread?

Yes, if only this and if only that, we'd all be together and alive forever and everything would work out fine.

There is no protest to be lodged against loneliness—not all the bombing campaigns in history have made a dent in it. The most lethal of manmade explosives can't touch it. Stand in awe not of Communism, my idiot child, but of ordinary, everyday loneliness.

In risposta alla prospettiva di una gratificazione e un accudimento straordinari, la mia insaziabile parte infantile non farà che accrescere la soglia di soddisfazione fino a conseguire di nuovo la sua omeostasi di grave insoddisfazione.

Ma poi un piccolo, silenzioso, educato, profumato, ordinatissimo sistema di nuovi segnali mi ha in qualche modo sparato alla testa. Con le parole e le lacrime lei mi ha amputato qualcosa. Io le avevo donato la mia più intima importanza, e il suo autobus è ripartito, lasciando una qualche parte fondamentale di me dentro di lei come il pungiglione di un'ape. Adesso l'unica cosa che voglio è salire in macchina e andarmene molto lontano, a sanguinare».

We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory and fame, it is meaningless. The nations we fight for will one day cease to be. Even the mountains we gaze upon will crumble to dust. To truly live we must yearn for that which does not die.

May all your dreams come true, save one.

Sometimes I hate you, sometimes I hate myself, but always I miss you

As for sex, the last of the great words, it was just a cocktail term for an excitement that bucked you up for a while, then left you more raggy than ever

She couldn't quite, quite love in hopelessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever quite love at all

He was determined to take the first flight out, wherever it went. Anywhere had to be better than this.

The heart wants what it wants -- but sometimes it takes time to figure things out.