Quotes About Yearning

The heart has reasons of which reason knows nothing.

specially looking forward to something else, to him and

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

Mikhal - "...most of all, I want to be the man that I am only when I am with you

But she had never known that a man could want a woman and not take her because he did care. There was something very fragile and precious in the idea, though she didn't really understand it. Maybe someday she would.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

For me, everything's too much and nothing's enough.

I shall have to miss forever some beautiful, wonderful things because of that wretched, lonely childhood. There will always be a lacking, a wanting -- some dead branches that never grew leaves. It is not deaths and murders and plots and wars that make life tragedy. It is day after day, and year after year, and Nothing. It is a sunburned little hand reached out and Nothing put into it.

From insipid sweet wine; from men who wear moustaches; from the sort of people that call legs 'limbs'; from bedraggled white petticoats: Kind Devil, deliver me.

But I am too young yet to think of peace. It is not peace that I want. Peace is for forty and fifty; I am waiting for my Experience. I am awaiting the coming of the Devil.

The only time a women wishes she was a year older is when she's expecting a baby.

Boys liked it when you were starving, like you had starved yourself for them.

I didn't know how I could want things so badly while making it impossible to ever get them.

Here she was on the other side of the grating—here she was at last, on the outside—looking in!

It was best to be pined for when you went missing.

I wanted someone to follow, I wanted him to be brave. But he wants to be brave for me; and no one can do that.

Often I wished for someone to share my mind with; but their hearts were in little things, they would have thought me a dreamer, and I had to plan alone.

Great anguish lies in wait for those who long too greatly.

you'll get into this morbid state when you think if you want something, then you shouldn't have it.

We are weary of ourselves, and have dreamed a king. If now the gods have sent us one, let us not ask him to be more than mortal.

It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this was what you wanted.

Sexual desire is a state not unlike hunger.

do nae want ye to.

I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the pillow and sigh for a long time. It seemed there would never be another book. It was all over, the book was dead. It lay in its bent cover by my hand. What was the use? Why bother dragging the weight of my small body down to dinner? Why move? Why breathe? The book had left me, and there was no reason to go on.