Quotes About Yearning

I see my husband and the way he is with his daughters, responsive and alive and sensitive in ways my father would have liked to be. My father would have loved to be a man like that, and he surrounded himself with men like that, but he couldn't be.

There's something about America's sweetheart and America's bad boy. That juxtaposition is what everyone desires.

If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.

His mind strayed from his work to her. His dreams were never of anything but her. There was nothing beautiful in the world that didn't, in some way, remind him of her. And he began to wonder if he really did have a heart after all. For didn't you have to possess a heart to be so dangerously close to losing it?

For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go.

Didn't you ever have a father yourself? You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.' So I figured it's because I never had a father that I don't want one now. A person can't miss something she never had.

What the heart desires is medicine to itself.

Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

I left home because I was hungry.

Ignoring the boy following them, Graham said, "I hope your trip home was pleasant, even if it was alone." "You shouldn't have gotten me a private car. That was excessive." "I was hoping to make up for my absence. Did it?" Her cheeks warmed as she ducked her head. "No. I still would've rather had you." "Oh, love, that's the nicest thing--" He pecked a kiss on her cheek so quickly, she couldn't quite believe it had happened.

I'll come back for you soon, and when I do, be ready for a kiss that'll knock you off the rails.

He'd need something to fill his lonely nights, because Molly sure as shooting wasn't interested in him any longer.

He couldn't deny the hole he was in, but could the uppity young miss who kept his head spinning be the answer he was looking for?

quería una persona, quería que esa persona me quisiera y no pensaba que uno tenía que buscar, incesantemente, en otros cuerpos lo que ya había encontrado en uno solo (...)

The exile is a person who, having lost a loved one, keeps searching for the face he loves in every new face and, forever deceiving himself, thinks he has found it.

Pero hoy, se decía Juan, todo el mundo necesita hablar. De alguna manera inconsciente (con un chiste, con una palabra o con un grito) la gente necesita resumir el año. El inventario no tiene que ser exhaustivo, pero es imprescindible. Reflejará lo que nos falta y por lo mismo nos alentará a buscarlo

Liefde is altijd ergens anders, een watervlugge bokser met prachtig voetenwerk en oogverblindende schijnbewegingen, die nooit toeslaat en die niet te slaan is.

Por lo general, nunca nos ha parecido suficiente ser lo que somos: falta algo y los deseos van en su busca.

Elle se disait qu'il était peut-être là, séparé d'elle par un rien de temps, par un millième de seconde, plus infranchissable qu'un mur de forteresse.

Midnight is not in everyman's reach.

We are being torn apart between the avidity for knowing and the despair of having known. The goad will not renounce its sting and we our hope.