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Quotes About Yearning

I'd love to take some reindeer cherry," he said in a low growl.
~ Unknown
Yeah, but satisfaction brought him back.
~ Unknown
I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream
~ Neil Young
I'm homesick, not for America, but for Negroes.
~ Nella Larsen
But there was, she knew, something else. Happiness, she supposed. Whatever that might be. What, exactly, she wondered, was happiness. Very positively she wanted it.
~ Nella Larsen
A stranger always hashis homeland in his armslike an orphanfor which he may be seekingnothing but a grave.
~ Nelly Sachs
There's people in hell who want ice water.
~ Nelson Algren
Without hesitation, Dove chose the nowhere road. For that was the only place, in his heart of hearts, that he really wanted to go.
~ Nelson Algren
Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.
~ Nelson Mandela
A dama do lotação Às
~ Nelson Rodrigues
Tout à coup je pensai à l'image vaine qui m'avait égaré si longtemps. « Sylvie, dis-je, arrêtons-nous ici, le voulez-vous ? » Je me jetai à ses pieds ; je confessai en pleurant à chaudes larmes mes irrésolutions, mes caprices ; j'évoquai le spectre funeste qui traversait ma vie. « Sauvez-moi ! ajoutai-je, je reviens à vous pour toujours. » Elle tourna vers moi ses regards attendris…
~ Unknown
Undo it, take it back, make every day the previous one until I am returned to the day before the one that made you gone. Or set me on an airplane traveling west, crossing the date line again and again, losing this day, then that, until the day of loss still lies ahead, and you are here instead of sorrow.
~ Unknown
Before his mistress a lover was prostrate, wounded to death by her beauty, killed by her disdain, obliged to an illimitable constancy, marked out for her dangerous service. A smile from her was in theory a gracious reward for twenty years of painful adoration.
~ Unknown
The essential points in the successful use of the law of assumption are these: First, and above all, yearning; longing; intense, burning desire. With all your heart you must want to be different from what you are. Intense, burning desire [combined with intention to make good] is the mainspring of action, the beginning of all successful ventures. In every great passion [which achieves its objective], desire is concentrated [and intentioned. You must first desire and then intend to succeed].
~ Neville Goddard
And they don't know anything else They don't know they're breathing bad air. But I'm tired of living like this And my soul cries out, 'If You're there..
~ Unknown
She flashed upon his life with an electric energy, shattering every day's effort at work and leaving a kind of glimmering burning feeling all day and night around the edges of his heart.
~ Niall Williams
can see the way she's hoping so hard that this might be the time, this might be Help Coming. She's hoping and trying not to hope at the same time. And that's the saddest thing. Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it's definitely a Thing with Claws.
~ Niall Williams
Where are you, Aeney? You slip away from me as you always did. Where are you?
~ Niall Williams
Forse ogni poeta è condannato all'insoddisfazione. Dev'essere per colpa della luce che li abbaglia
~ Niall Williams
YANKY GO HOME Pero llevame contigo YANKEE GO HOME But take me with you...
~ Nicanor Parra
Technology isn't what makes us "post-human" or "transhuman," as some writers and scholars have recently suggested. It's what makes us human. Technology is in our nature. Through our tools we give our dreams form. We bring them into the world. The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.
~ Unknown
The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. —D. H. Lawrence,
~ Unknown
What I missed was what I missed every year when the season ended and abruptly the radio was quiet. I missed them.
~ Unknown
She had seemed to need something from him that he hadn't been able to give...at last he realized that what she had needed from him was need itself. That he should need her as she needed him.
~ Nicholas Evans