Quotes About Yearning

I would be a slave to achieve the maid whose sudden sight has thrilled my wounded eye.

the things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.

Because we can't stop the weltschmerz, we can't stop imagining the world as it might be. Which is awesome! It is my favorite thing about us!

There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you're in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself. If the moment doesn't pass, that's it -- you're done. And if the moment does pass, it never goes that far. It stands in the distance, ready for whenever you want it back. Sometimes it's even there when you thought you were searching for something else, like an escape route, or your lover's face.

Really, he could be anywhere now, because he wants to be nowhere.

I wanted my spring awakening, even if it was coming a season late. I wanted summer lovin' that would happen so fast. I wanted to succeed at the business of love without really trying.

Most of the time when we think we're looking for death, we're really looking for love. That

To feel such a longing for his own life, even as he's living it—he wonders what that means.

I felt there was a piece of me missing, a piece that had become so unnerved that it fell away without me feeling it. I didn't even know what piece it was-I just felt the gap, and knew that whatever it was, it must have been important.

If only you knew, Comedy Boy. If only I could tell you.

She was pretty, though. Like a flower. I missed that.

I still sing him songs before I am ready, sing him back the moments he has missed. as if to say, this is where I was when you couldn't find me.

Yes, girls want their princes, but boys want their princesses just as much.

I am seeing that I cannot be a part of the music that sets him free.

There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you're in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself. If the moment doesn't pass, that's it-- you're done. And if the moment does pass, it never goes far. It stands in the distance, ready for whenever you want it back. Sometimes it's even there when you thought you were searching for something else, like an escape route, or your lover's face.

My mother sewed my name into all my underwear. But, really, it was another boy's name I was ready to sew into my heart.

I wanted to like her and I wanted her to like me and that was more want than I had saddled myself up for in many a moon.

Esto es lo que no admitimos sobre los primeros besos: una de las cosas más gratificantes acerca de ellos es que son la prueba, la prueba real, de que la otra persona realmente quiere besarnos. Somos deseables y deseamos. Cada beso importante implica un reconocimiento.

He knows he is missing something. He is always missing something. He can never get past the first step of finding it, which is knowing what it is.

when I look out a window I wish for you on the other side even if you're not there I can see you in the clouds

There was a time before you but I can't remember it now a time before your beauty and I were formally introduced I'm sure I lived without you but I don't remember how can't imagine living without these feelings you've produced

I am tired of not feeling. I am tired of not connecting.

It hurts that I can be so full of him, when he's so empty of me.

Even though I was turned on and warm and with him…I thought to myself, I'm missing something.