Quotes About Yearning

they had an unselfconscious comfort that normally required long intimacy. Maybe it was because he'd been thinking about her all month, waiting for her to appear, and the anticipation had been akin to actually being together.

I could walk out of here Chuck Bukowski.

I'm a big believer in the negligee, that nearly invisible screen standing between you and the object of your desire.

I would like to be the airthat inhabits you for a momentonly. I would like to be that unnoticed& that necessary.

Today's word was interminable , meaning never-ending. Like his loneliness. Like the love he felt for Kate. Like the awful hurt that wouldn't go away.

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

One must desire something to be alive.

Now, what I want you

We are hungry, and we don't know for what. We want something, but we can't name it. The parish is taking good care of us, nourishing us with word and sacrament, just as the hospital made sure that Mrs. G was fed, nursed, and medicated. But we want something else, something more: we want to be touched, we want to be known as children of God.

I could not speak for the salt that filled my throat, and for anger - not at anyone, at God, perhaps, for giving us eyes but almost never sight.

Come gli manca uno sguardo così. Se non lo conosci vivacchi e non ti manca. Ma se una stronza ti ha posato addosso quelle ali lì, ti ha fatto sentire l'eroe di una sceneggiatura temeraria, rimani tutta la vita un mendicante che va in giro a cercare quelle palpebre che si aprono solo per guardarti e si chiudono per imprigionarti.

Non mi prendere mai sul serio quando ti dico di lasciarmi. Tienimi, ti prego, tienimi. Vieni quando ti pare, una volta al mese, una volta all'anno, ma tienimi...».

Cosa pretendeva da lui? Tutto. Semplicemente tutto. E questo era stato il vero sbaglio. Chiudersi in un solo amore e chiedergli tutto. Semplicemente perché di tutto hai bisogno.

serás toda tu vida un mendigo que va por ahi en busca de esos párpados que sólo se abren para mirarte y se cierran para aprisionarte.

Avevano anche fatto l'amore da lontano, più di una volta. Senza dirselo, si erano ritrovati a sudare, a piegarsi in mezzo a un parco, su un autobus. Il pensiero era così forte, erano braccia che aprivano le costole. Come se l'altro stesse cercando il tuo cuore dal lato opposto della città, attraverso muri di macchine e di cemento.

Il pensiero era così forte, erano braccia che aprivano le costole. Come se l'altro stesse cercando il tuo cuore dal lato opposto della città, attraverso i muri di macchine e cemento.

We were like two wolves that have chased a prey and lost it: They lie together in the dark woods, panting and weary, and they're still hungry.

Te iubesc, Guido. Te iubesc, întotdeauna dup? o muie. Era una din sentin?ele lui Knut.

Lei ansima, il collo torto verso il soffitto rotto, e lui la guarda. E forse la guardava così, con la stessa tenerezza, la stessa nostalgia, mentre facevano l'amore.

Tienimi! Vieni quando ti pare, una volta al mese, una volta all'anno. Ma tienimi.

Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.

Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.

She wanted Adam Fox with the fervour of parched earth thirsting for water, corn aching for the warmth of ripening sun, a starving skeleton drooling over a crust of bread. Her passionate young body yearned to feel his touch, soft lips quivered an invitation to be kissed, wounded eyes promised a lifetime of devotion, if only . . .

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.