Quotes About Yearning

With so much leaving your front hole, no wonder you wish for something to enter the back.

I want to lie down in the grass on the sidewalk and I want to run and keep running.

Then I wondered if everybody has that person that haunts them, the one that got away.

Why should anybody want anybody? Just have nothing, just need nothing.

What have we all, we who have nothing left but longing to be free of our lashed satiety.

Has conseguido hacerte un lugar tan dentro de mí, que no puedo siquiera respirar sin pensar en ti. Y no satisfecha con adueñarte de mi mente, ahora parece que también tienes que ser la dueña de mi corazón, mi vida y mi alma.

Please. You must let me go," she whispered. "Or I will be lost." He bowed his head, his lips almost touching hers. "You will never be lost. I will always find you.

How could I love him, Jessie. I didn't have a thing he wanted.

I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch, He said to me, "You must not ask for so much." And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door, She cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?" —Leonard Cohen, "Bird on a Wire

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

He was muttering now and I could barely make out his words. "I'm going to die without ever feeling a woman's tits." "Go ahead," I said. It was about time I used the power of my chichis for good and not for evil.

I wait every year for summer, and it is usually good, but it is never as good as that summer I am always waiting for.

It is much harder to be lonely, when you have for a while stopped being lonely. I was used to having only myself, cold and hard as that is; I could live with it. And now I wait, for a voice, a face, a body, that is not going to be here, is not mine, does not in any case wait as I do, nor share this homesickness. […] How to explain that I taught myself to be tough and indifferent, because it mattered too much and learned not even to weep in my mind not to notice.

I could feel him paying attention to me with every inch of his being. He wanted to know me. My skin tightened with the pleasure of it. So I answered.

I don't want to not see you again.

And if it was this hard with Ratthi and Pin-Lee (Gurathin had never liked me and it was mutual), what was it going to be like with Mensah, if I managed to get that far? I didn't know if I could trust them. I wanted to. But I want a lot of things—freedom, unlimited downloads, new episodes of Drama Sun Islands—most of which I wasn't going to get.

But I want a lot of things—freedom, unlimited downloads, new episodes of Drama Sun Islands—most of which I wasn't going to get.

That winter the son's need for his father's love was again disappointed. On November 10, three weeks before his twelfth birthday, he wrote to him, 'You never came to see me on Sunday when you were in Brighton.' This was the second time his father had been in Brighton but had not gone to see him.

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

We're all addicted to something that takes away the pain.

Desire is always linked to a story, and to a gap that needs to be filled: a yearning that intrudes, agitates and motivates human behavior both consciously and unconsciously.

We desire whatever it is—the place, the person, the thing, the period in our lives—we're convinced we're lacking. The

The vanity and insatiability of the human heart are unspeakable. What a man has does not please him; what he does not have, that he yearns for.

le corps a faim [...] du battement d'un autre coeur pour régler le rythme du sien.