Quotes About Yearning

Pensaba en él todos los días. Su

O lupt? pierdut?, o jachet? rupt? ?i b?t?i cu rigla la palm?: ?i-ar fi dorit acum asemenea probleme.

She pressed her body to his. "Kissing you has made me go all hot and slippery inside." He

wanted to see you again.

To his consternation, her nearness made him slightly out of breath.

him like a mild electric shock. No woman outside his family had touched him for two years.

I'd give something to see that. Mostly, I'd just to look over the country around the gorge again, just to bring some of it clear in my mind again. I been away a long time.

He wants something from me. He doesn't know that the only thing I have left is the hollow of something gone

But in spite of her efforts to stop the words she can feel some of the need getting through: he doesn't need me that much, he couldn't—

And consummated there a month of quick looks, guarded smiles, accidental brushings of body too open or too secret to be mere accident, and all the other little unfinished vignettes of desire . . . and, perhaps most of all, consummated the shared knowledge of that desire

She was saying something but I didn't hear, I ran, leaving her behind, toward my brother . . . leaving her and blindly hoping she might see that I was making it possible to perhaps someday have her. Her or someone.

I love them but I cannot give myself for them.

Is it that?" she asked in a soft voice, once more examining her hands, "not being sure of that 'someday'? Or is it not being sure of having that 'somebody'?

And I lay awake for hours, hoping another phone call would give me that opportunity to be alone and unruffled with her.

He didn't feel he had the ability to follow her into those reveries or the right to call her back out.

There is a phrase for this that has become quite common: "I'm spiritual but not religious." Polls show that some 20 percent of Americans identify overall with that phrase. And some polls have shown that, in the younger generation—those between eighteen and twenty-nine—this percentage explodes to an astonishing 75 percent!2 In other words, three out of four young individuals have a deep spiritual yearning that no existing religion is addressing.

I only feel, but want the power to paint.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye

The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

Death holds no allure for me, Elena." The power of him cut against his skin, a cold white fire. "Not when I have yet to sate my hunger for you.

I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

Have we ever thought to consider that the need to be loved grows because of its absence, but that love also grows because of its presence? And does this not speak to the power of love?

The promise of power wasn't enough, he thought. So now she tempts me with knowledge.