Quotes About Yearning

Se exactamente lo que necesita el mejor pastel del mundo para llegar a serlo: un pellizco de tus pechos.

Year's end, all corners of this floating world, swept.

Sora and I were separated by the distance of a single night, but it was just the same as being separated by a thousand miles.

From five to six miles I walk every day In search of you, Cherry blossoms.

People always desire that which they cannot have.

Even though we both know that our loved one will never so much as look our way we can't erase that small something within us that continues to hope in vain.

Show me...Show me what I've forgotten...Show me what was so important...that it tore my heart in two?!

I want these gentle hands... and this kind smile... although I should not want such a thing.

His key insight was that yearning, or wishing things were different than they are, is the root of all suffering, and that letting go of this desire is the secret to happiness.

She gave me peace just by looking at her, which might explain why I looked at her for too long, and with too much intensity in my eyes. The way people never look at people anymore. I wanted her in every sense.

No, she felt homesick, not for a place, but for a time. Maybe it wasn't homesickness at all. Maybe it was timesickness. She just missed those days when she was younger - seven, six, five, four years old - when she didn't know so much about the world. She missed, most of all, her mother.

She had shrunk for him and he still hadn't found the space he needed. No more.

This was, I realized, a beautiful planet. Maybe it was the most beautiful of all. But beauty creates its own troubles. You look at a waterfall or an ocean or a sunset, and you find yourself wanting to share it with someone.

By thinking of the cloud, I thirsted for the raindrop.

I was already feeling a kind of homesickness for a present I was still living

Want,' she told her, in a measured tone, 'is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely. Maybe you have a lack problem rather than a want problem. Maybe there is a life that you really want to live.

She wondered how many Dans there were in the world, dreaming of things they would hate if they actually got them.

Want is an interesting word. It means lack.

wanting is also lacking. That is what "want" means.

otherwise happiness will drip through us like water through a leaky bucket. The moment we want is the moment we are dissatisfied. The more we want, the more we will drip ourselves away.

Just as dogs were thwarted wolves, parks were thwarted forests. Humans loved both, possibly because humans were, well, thwarted.

We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. —DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

She had loved no one, and no one had loved her back. She had been empty, her life had been empty, walking around, faking some kind of human normality like a sentient mannequin of despair. Just the bare bones of getting through.

the thing that had left her vulnerable, really, was the absence of love.