logo

Quotes About Yearning

Un dia, mientras escribia una carta, Otoko abrio el diccionario para consultar el ideograma 'pensar'. Al repasar los restantes significados (añorar, ser incapaz de olvidar, estar triste) sintio que el corazon se le encogia. Tuvo miedo de tocar el diccionario... Aun ahi estaba Oki. Innumerables palabras se lo recordaban. Vincular todo lo que veia y oia con su amor equivalia a estar viva. La conciencia de su propio cuerpo era inseparable del recuerdo de aquel abrazo.
~ Kawabata Yasunari
They want to live , Alex. They want the life they were cheated out of. So if they see an open door . . . or an open mind . . . some of them come in never intending to leave.
~ Kay Hooper
How could I tell him that my loneliness was crushing? How it felt awful to be lonely but not know how to reach out to people and fill the time I always had too much of? It wasn't that I didn't enjoy being alone, because I did, and could spend hours on solitary endeavors like reading or going for long walks without ever wishing for human companionship...sometimes I craved the presence of someone, especially if I could be myself.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
I kneeled without ecstasy, prayed without belief, and felt as a stranger.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
It was like there was some parallel universe we all vanished off to where we had all this sex.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind of world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
But however hard I tried, I believe now there would have remained something beyond my reach.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Küçük bir k?z gördüm, eski iyi yürekli dünyay? göÄŸsüne yaslam??, art?k kalamayaca??n? yüreÄŸinde hissettiÄŸi bu dünyay? tutuyor, onu asla b?rakmas?n istiyordu.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone with our fears and longings
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
we both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Tommy, you don't seem very pleased for me," I said, though in an obviously jokey voice. "I am pleased for you, Kath. It's just that, well, I wish I'd found it." Then he did a small laugh and went on: "Back then, when you lost it, I used to think about it, in my head, what it would be like, if I found it and brought it to you. What you'd say, your face, all of that.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
?n vacibi o idi ki, dÉ™yÉ™rli bir ??yam?z? itirÉ™ndÉ™ vÉ™ axtar?b-axtar?b tapa bilmÉ™yÉ™ndÉ™ qÉ™lbimiz tamamilÉ™ q?r?lm?rd?. Böyüyüb ölkÉ™dÉ™ sÉ™rbÉ™st sÉ™yahÉ™t edÉ™ bilÉ™ndÉ™ Norfolka getmÉ™k imkan?m?z?n olaca?? fikri ilÉ™ özümüzÉ™ tÉ™sÉ™lli verÉ™ bilirdik.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I suppose I'm saying Josie and I will always be together at some level, some deeper one, even if we go out there and don't see each other any more. I can't speak for her. But once I'm out there, I know I'll always keep searching for someone just like her.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Bu çox qÉ™ddar and?r. Sanki ömrün boyu hÉ™r gün yan?ndan ötdüyün güzgü sÉ™nÉ™ qÉ™fildÉ™n baÅŸqa ÅŸey, É™zab verÉ™n qÉ™ribÉ™ bir ÅŸey göstÉ™rir.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Ama seni gördüm ve yüreÄŸim s?zlad?. Bunu asla unutmad?m.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
For a long time, I was very unhappy, very unhappy indeed. ... occasions now and then -- extremely desolate occasions -- when you think to yourself: What a terrible mistake I've made with my life. And you get to thinking about a different life, a better life you might have had.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
What made the tape so special for me was this one particular song: track number three, "Never Let Me Go.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
it was indeed 'as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there'.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I'm surprised someone would desire so much a path that would leave her in loneliness. Until recently, I didn't think that humans could choose loneliness. That there were sometimes forces more powerful than the wish to avoid loneliness.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
That's what we all want, isn't it? Power without price.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Perfect night, wasn't it? It could have been. I smiled up at him. But you were there.
~ Kelley Armstrong
I wanted to walk over there. I wanted to curl up beside him, lean against him, talk to him. I wanted to know what he was thinking. I wanted to tell him everything would be okay. And I wanted him to tell me the same thing. I didn't care if it was true or not- I just wanted to say it. To hear it, to feel his arms around me, hear the rumble of his words, that deep chuckle that made me pulse race
~ Kelley Armstrong
You want to keep looking? I asked. Yeah, maybe. I'll leave you to it, then. I started for the door. No. He said it quickly, and reached for my arm, but stopped before he touched me. I mean, if you're tired, sure, but you don't have to. Derek doesn't want her to leave ?
~ Kelley Armstrong
I lifted onto my toes, put my hands aroung his neck, and pulled him down. When our lips met, that first jolt... It was everything I hadn't felt with Simon, everything I wanted to feel. His hands went around my waist, pulling me closer--
~ Kelley Armstrong