Quotes About Yearning

But don't give me, if I can't have the dress, a trip to Greenland, or grim trip to the moon. The moon should come here. Let him make the trip down, spread on my dark floor some dim marvel, and if a success that I stoop to pick up and wear, I could ask nothing more.

un corazón que ama desordenadamente las cosas de la tierra está como sujeto por una cadena, o por un "hilillo sutil", que le impide volar a Dios»

There is nothing in the world so enticing as that which you have been told you may not have.

This was London, in all its filth and glory. Nostalgic for the past, while yearning to cast off the chains of bygone ages and step forward into the bright utopia of the future. Proud of its achievements, yet despising its own flaws. A monster in both size and nature, that would consume the unwary and spit them out again, in forms unrecognizable and undreamt. London, the monster city.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

Does one love a statue?" she demanded. "Shall I caress a picture? Shall I rain tears or kisses over the mere semblance of a life that does not live, shall I fondle hands that never return my clasp? Love! Love is in my heart -yes! like a shut-up fire in a tomb,but you hold the key, and the flame dies for want of air.

I've been searching a long time for something I think I lost. I felt like I found something when I saw you back there.

I grasp his salt and pepper hair to steady myself as his tongue lingers and plays, making my legs feel weak with desire. - from The Gorgeous Girls by Marie Wilson

The first time she saw Jag Silvertree she was watering the garden, and her clematis got soaked as she dreamt of melting into his face. The second time she saw Jag she knew she would never feel his angular jaw against her thighs. For Jag Silvertree carried around with him a hurt that she figured would stand out in a field of wounded soldiers.

any moment now that sun would burst into a ball of flame, a furnace to stifle the heart of Petites Cendres, his soul felt blood-raw, liquefied deep down inside him, in a pale, cold sea where the need that gnawed at him would break your heart, a fire burnt out, his heart, that dog should not have been there on Esmeralda or Bahama Street, hunger tottering on all fours, night-prowling around the Porte du Baiser Saloon where he just would not stop living despite all odds

Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire.

Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.

The thing stank of unnamed yearnings, unfulfilled wishes, and a hunger so deep it make her feel hollow inside.

She was like a landscape you see from the train, and you want to stop just there.

His problem is that he doesn't want anyone until he can have anyone he wants.

There's no sauce in the world like hunger.

I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I'd trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.

I'd go without food if I could have a flower.

We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water.

For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.

I almost die for food, and let me have it!

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

Hunger is never delicate.

After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.