Quotes About Yearning

Los grandes ojos negros almendrados de su esposa le trajeron al recuerdo sus noches de amor: ¿dónde estaba aquel espíritu saciado, de dicha absoluta, de miles de silenciosas promesas con el que terminaban todas ellas?

Spiritual desire is the experience of God's presence in us or it may be the absence of God as well, since a feeling of absence may stimulate a yearning for God. It is the experience of delightful love and fearful emptiness.

I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.

Why can't you like me?" he said, his voice breaking. His scent steamed then, hot and heady with a welter of contradictions: apples and fire and electric roil of those cold, black shadows. "Why can't you like me just a little?" She would never know how she might have answered, because he never gave her the chance. Instead, he kissed her.

Sometimes you don't know what you need until it's gone

desire is so much sweeter when you cant have it.

You step out of the shower and the entire nation calms— a drop of lemon-egg shampoo, you smell like bees, a brief kiss, I don't know anything about you—except the spray of freckles on your shoulders! which makes me feel so thrillingly alone. I stand on earth in my pajamas, penis sticking out— for years in your direction.

I love art more than virtue, more than people, more than people, more than family, more than friends, more than any kind of happiness or joy in life. I love it secretly, jealously, like an old drunkard - incurably.

One of the things I have learned about death is this: no matter how grief stricken you are, no matter how much you miss them, yearning for their laughs or hands or eyes, your relationship to the dead continues long after their bodies are gone. Memory is not simply a way of holding on, it is a reencounter. Their visits continue as long as you do..

Oh, hogyha látnád árva lelkedet A végtelen ?rben keringeni, Amint értelmet és kifejezést Keres hiába, idegen világban, S nem érez többé semmit és nem ért, Megborzadnál.

Érzem, mi hitvány a föld, hogy magas Lelkem lezárja, s vágyom el köréb?l; De visszasírok, fáj, hogy elszakadtam.

This history of wanting, Mahabat," Sharif said slowly. "I have learned this much. It is better to want than to have a desire fulfilled. Once it is . . . it has little importance. So it will be for the Emperor.

we take care not to touch each other in public, nor do we look into each other's eyes except furtively, because Ivan must first wash my eyes with his own, removing the images which landed on my retina before his arrival.

I think of you, of the lake, of the city, of the burning days on the shore, in the sand, of the shadowy paths, of the musical breath of the air. The water is quiet, blue, I'd like to lie in a boat in the reeds, I don't want to speak, everything around me will tell you what I'm sensing.

She wondered all the same how much they really had to say to one another, given that they had only this city in common and a similar way of talking, the same intonation, perhaps she'd just wanted to believe after that third whiskey on the roof garden at the Hilton that he would give her back something she'd lost, a missing taste, an intonation gone flat, that ghostly feeling of home, though she was no longer at home anywhere.

No one else looked at her as if she were the answer to every question he'd ever asked.

Is there a girl out there who doesn't want to be looked at the way Mr. Darcy looked at Elizabeth?" ? Grier McAllister

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are." ?Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes, I just wonder why we have to choose between the way we live and wanting to do something else with our lives.

Is there a girl out there who doesn't want to be looked at the way Mr. Darcy looked at Elizabeth?

To feel. To trust the feeling. I long for that

Faith is a torment, did you know that? It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you call.

Reality is perhaps not at all what I imagine. Perhaps it doesn't exist, in fact. Perhaps it only exists as a longing.

A perfect life is like a cloud. You can reach it, but you can't always see it.