Quotes About Yearning

But let none, he added, pray to have the full music; for it will make him who hears it a footsore traveller in

Dost thou love picking meat? Or wouldst thou see A man in the clouds, and have him speak to thee?

El ayo quiere que Pasión espere hasta el principio del año venidero para recibir sus mejores cosas; mas Pasión todo lo quiere al momento. Paciencia al contrario, esta resignado esperar.

I sat thinking. How it was she who'd mentioned love first. How she seemed to be waiting, the door still between us, for me to act. And I imagined that if I reached for her I would find her where she lay waiting in the water, and my fingers would glide over her bare wet skin until every inch of her, every crook and hollow, would become mine. I would vouch for her with my life.

Because it was the endless wanting that would break you, I thought. The constant craving for a love that might never be fulfilled that would bring you low, bit by bit, until one day you'd no longer be able to recognize any part of yourself.

The landings were dirty and the walls were bare. This stairway brought me into the balcony, and I sat there in the dark, thinking that nothing now was going to save me, that no pretty girl with new shoes was going to cross my path in time.

And it was at the highest point in the arc of a bridge that I became aware suddenly of the depth and bitterness of my feelings about modern life, and of the profoundness of my yearning for a more vivid, simple, and peaceable world.

The clouds reminded me of hootch, the rain reminded me of hootch, the stars reminded me of hootch. I used to dream about girls before I got on the hootch but after that I just used to dream about hootch. I mean dreams are supposed to come from some very deep part of your mind like sex but with me it was hootch.

Su un tram affollato a Roma all'ora di chiusura una sera d'inverno, qualcuno per sbaglio mi tocca la spalla. Non mi giro a guardare chi è e non saprò mai se è un uomo o una donna, una sgualdrina o un prete, ma quel tocco delicato scatena in me un tale desiderio di tenerezza e di cura che sospiro; mi sento cedere le ginocchia. Non è un sospiro profumato di violette né uno spasimo chopinesco: è qualcosa di rozzo e reale come i peli sulla mia pancia

Ä°nsan bir yerdeyken baÅŸka bir yerde olmak istiyorsa mesele gemiye binmekten ibaret deÄŸildir. Asl?nda baÅŸka bir ülkeyi özlemez. Kendi içinde var olmayan ya da bulmay? baÅŸaramad??? bir ÅŸeyin özlemini çeker.

Kimseyi beklemiyordum; etraf?mdaki kad?nlar da kocalar?n? bekliyorlard? sadece, ama bana hepimiz çok daha fazlas?n? bekliyormuÅŸuz gibi geliyordu.

Lo que sentía por Eduardo era más parecido a la nostalgia que al espíritu aventurero del amor tradicional, pero no era un sentimiento menos fuerte. Comprendió que, si verdaderamente buscaba la pureza, nunca la encontraría en sí mismo.

I have experienced all kinds of foolish melancholy—I've been homesick for countries I've never seen, and longed to be what I couldn't be—but all these moods were trivial compared to my premonition of death.

She still required the dangerous, maddening nerve-quiver of vice to render existence bearable.

The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.

The things that scare us the most are also what we want most in life.

If life was supposed to be easy I wouldn't be sitting here trying to figure out ways to get you to fall in love with me.

I drove for miles and miles and wound up at your door. I've had you so many times but somehow I want more.

He ignores you, but somehow you fall for him more every day. He does nothing, but yet that's enough to win you over.

Every girl has that one boy she keeps going back to and no one knows why, not even her.

It hurts to realize you love each other but can't live together.

I don't understand why destiny allowed some people to meet, when there's no way for them to be together.

Don't get too attached to someone you know you can't be together with.

The saddest part of love life is when you cannot live with or without the one you love.