Quotes About Yearning

So on my fiftieth birthday, deep within myself I had but one wicked wish—for something would tear me away from all these guarantees and comforts, that would necessitate my not merely continuing, but my starting anew." When he wrote those lines in 1941, Zweig had already decided to kill himself,

Nor did I ever forget the distress signals which my adolescent self sent out to the older woman who was afterward to absorb me, body and soul. Nothing, I feared, would survive of that girl, not so much as a pinch of ashes. I begged her successor to recall my youthful ghost, one day, from the limbo to which it had been consigned.

we know perfectly well that all was not paradise at the time of our earliest loves; what we wish for, even in knowing the vanity of this wish, is to return there now with our emptiness, our desires, and our imagination.

Tessa didn't realize she was crying until she tasted tears on her lips. He's here. Watching me. Trying to touch me. So why can't I see him? Or hear him?

Tu es mon voleur d'ombre, où que tu sois, je penserai toujours à toi.

Savoir simplement que tu es là quelque part sur cette terre sera, dans mon enfer, mon petit coin de paradis.

If only heartache were contagious, you would love me as much as I love you

Meine Eltern fehlen mir ganz furchtbar, Waise zu sein ist ein Abgrund der Eisamkeit, aus dem ich mich nicht befreien kann.

Quizá contestes a esta postal, quizá encuentre una carta tuya cuando vuelva a casa, quizá vengas a buscarme. Me parece que estoy harto de tanto "quizá".

Ella ha vuelto, está ahí. En algún lugar sobre la tierra, le espera y le busca. Desde ahora, el tiempo cuenta para los dos. Si renuncian el uno al otro será mucho peor que malgastar sus vidas, será la extinción de sus almas.

Sigues pensando en ella? - A veces - ¿A menudo? - Un poco por la mañana, un poco a mediodía, un poco por la tarde y un poco por la noche.

It's the irony or maybe the tragedy of being a fan that it's not enough to let the music enter you like a drug or define and shape the world for you. You also want to somehow touch it and have it affirm you in more direct ways, whether you're playing a riff like Chuck Berry or singing like Buddy Holly or buying Keith Richards's guitar—or actually meeting your idols. In

WILL finds the loose end and spins her naked.

Un jour vient où vous manque une seule chose et ce n'est pas l'objet de votre désir, c'est le désir.

Ik wil branden in het vuur van mijn gevoelens. Ik wil alles, want alleen als ik alles heb weet ik dat ik iets ben. Ik wil meegevoerd worden om de zinloosheid van mijn bestaan te vergeten en ik wil de ander vervoering, onderdompeling en overgave geven en laten ondergaan om duidelijk te maken dat er niets is buiten mij, dat ik de kern van haar bestaan ben, dat het nergens beter is en dat ik alles verdien wat zij kan geven.

Et puis tout d'un coup, je te vois et ça m'arrive que je t'aime, d'une façon que c'est pas possible de le dire...Tout le temps, je te vois, tout le temps je te parle...Le sommeil, ça me l'a tué, quand je mange, ça n'a plus de goût.Si tu ne me veux pas, ou je meurs ou je deviens fou.

J'ai envie d'ailleurs, voila ce qu'il faut dire. C'est une chose bete, une idee qui ne s'explique pas. J'ai envie d'ailleurs

The only paradise is paradise lost.

The true paradises are paradises we have lost.

The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if it is worse, some emotion, some sorrow; when our sensibility, which happiness has silenced like an idle harp, wants to resonate under some hand, even a rough one, and even if it might be broken by it.

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.

I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence...