Quotes About Yearning

There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me.

From my window I watched the full moon—a moon that reminded me of Brett—become shadowed, little by little until there was only a deep blackness in the woods at night. I would sit there wakeful, hour after hour, and wonder if this aching around my heart, this sense of being alone, forlorn and unwanted in a world where there was gayety and love for others of my age, was going to continue for all of my days.

We are the restless living, our names are not haloed by nostalgia.

Sleep, how soon I too shall be sent— For your sake— my dearest, my damnable.

I couldn't take you. So the violin will have to do." He smiled and moved over to the violin case on the bed. "The next time you play, it will be at Loch Gaelkar.

No, but I wish I did. I wish I believed in something," Bradford said wistfully. "It would be pleasant, don't you think?

wanted life, but deep in her heart of hearts she only wanted

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye.

But I say: "Tilli, sometimes women too are sensual and want only that one thing." And there's no difference. Because sometimes I only want to wake up with someone in the morning, all messed up from kissing and half dead and without any energy to think, but wonderfully tired and rested at the same time.

I so want to give him my notebook--I want to be a real person--he should read my book--I work for him, I cook for him, I'm Doris--Doris isn't just some piece of dirt. I don't want to be innocent, I want to be the real Doris here and not that silly civilized product of the Green Moss's imagination.

Perhaps the two of them wouldn't love each other so much if they were allowed to.

There's got to be someone for me, who's breathing Berlin. And he will have black hair and a bowtie of white silk

What you have, you don't need, and what you need, you don't have.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

Questa ipersessualità potrebbe essere un mezzo per procurarsi quest'amore ora, da adulta. Ma non serve a niente, capite: nessun uomo, nemmeno cento uomini, possono dare quel che i suoi genitori le hanno negato più di venti anni fa.

Hunger: One of the few cravings that cannot be appeased with another solution.

Dreams may be impossible, yet still be dreamed.

Ich glaube, dass die Angst die man hat, wenn man an einem Abgrund steht, in Wahrheit vielmehr eine Sehnsucht ist. Eine Sehnsucht sich fallen zu lassen- oder die Arme auszubreiten und zu fliegen.

You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.

It breaks my heart to think of childhood, everybody bigger and whacking and shouting and teaching you not to reach for anything or look at anything, and not letting up on you till you get over wanting to.

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist Give me leave to do my utmost.