Quotes About Yearning

I wished I had a new wound, just so she could attend to me.

I miss you", she said into the air, as if the spirits of every person she'd loved were in the room with her.

Mrs Elm studied Nora hard, as if reading a passage in a book she had read before but had just found it contained a new meaning. '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.

Don't fret, dreamy spinning ones with water falling from your faces. It's us you're waiting for and we're coming.

[A] beautiful and ineffectual angel [Shelley], beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.

Nor does the being hungry prove that we have bread.

Venid a mí en mis sueños, y luego durante el día estaré bien otra vez. Porque entonces la noche más que pagará el anhelo desesperado del día.

Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again. For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day.

Waiting from heaven for the spark to fall.

All this and heaven too.

Wherever there is true grace, there is a desire for more grace.

We need. To need is to be human.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

And there I was with the stars hanging above my house like live wires and the night sky the color of stockings. I stuck out my tongue to taste the sky but could not taste. I inhaled deeply but could not smell. I used to look to the sky for comfort and now there was nothing, not even a seam, and I looked down and saw that it did not even reach the ground. And my only company was the satellites counting their sleep

Jack la miró largamente. ¿Cómo había imaginado que podría vivir sin ella? Durante todo el infernal trayecto por la autopista cubierta de agua en un Jeep robado, mejor dicho, prestado, había ensayado lo que iba a decir, había pensado cómo iba a abordarla. Una vez allí, en la misión más arriesgada de toda su vida, solo podía hacer una cosa.

he's a dead man the minute he falls for Daisy the siren. Gatsby "run[s] faster, stretch[es] out [his] arms farther," until, propelled by all that yearning, he leans too far out toward Daisy's dock, falls into the Sound, and drowns.

When I eat, everything tastes so good I can't get all the taste out of it; when I look at something-say, the lake-the waves are so green and the foam so white that it seems I can't look at it hard enough; there seems to be something there that I can't get at. And even when I'm with you, I can't seem to be with you...enough.

How was she to endure knowing he was in town these next two weeks, without throwing herself into his arms again? She would hide in her home and not come out until the day of the wedding. Yes, that was the only solution.

One day you fall for this boy. And he touches you with his fingers. And he burns holes in your skin with his mouth. And it hurts when you look at him. And it hurts when you don't. And it feels like someone's cut you open with a jagged piece of glass.

It is these moments that have led me here This need I had to sleep beside you That has caused all the trouble in my life. - excerpt from "Wanting You

down to her for a deep, openmouthed kiss flavored with her taste. He groaned hoarsely, sweeping

They were both dreamed only by the one they would have liked to be for each other.

How is it possible? Already another year gone by? How could it go so quickly!' Perhaps it is because one takes up too many moments remembering, reliving times past.

Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily. There is nothing in the world capable of such spontaneous up-lifting, of such speedy ennoblement; nothing that offers more scrupulous obedience to the pure and noble command it receives.