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Quotes About Yearning

I longed for the day when her soul would be taken into the depths of hell
~ David Pelzer
Als de hemel donker wordt met zwarte donderwolken, de grote bomen zwaaien in de wind, de pauwen zingen, hunker ik ernaar terug te rennen naar Gir.
~ David Quammen
The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.
~ David Quammen
We were born with four words engraved on our bodies and in our hearts: Love me, hold me.
~ David Richo
She thought the world a charnel house…and couldn't get enough of it. She thought herself unhappy…and wanted to live, unhappy, for as long as she possibly could.
~ David Rieff
Steel on the skyline Sky made of glass Made for a real world All things must pass Ooo Waiting for something Looking for someone Is there no reason?
~ David Robert Jones
Perhaps five thousand miles of desert and mountains and ocean separated him from his family. But sometimes their faces were so real he felt he could reach out and tousle their hair….
~ David S. Brody
She closed her eyes and lifter her face to the
~ David S. Brody
Nonetheless: if only and if only and if only.
~ David Sheff
Why do I want to meet him? No matter how unrealistic, I retain a sliver of hope that I can get through to him. That's not quite accurate. I know I can't, but at least I can put my fingertips on his cheek.
~ David Sheff
Siente una especie de dolor en el pecho, intenso pero placentero. Es como si hubiera una herida, pero una herida leve, una marca en la piel que quieres acariciar, reconocer, disfrutarla por todo lo que significa para ti. Ahora que aún está, porque es posible que, pronto, desaparezca.
~ David Trueba
The boy would be lavished with presents upon arrival – a new train set, a model plane or a knight's suit of armour. But with nobody to play with Tom would get bored quickly. All he really wanted was to spend time with Mum and Dad, but time was the one thing they never ever gave him. "No. Mother and Father are abroad,
~ David Walliams
But then we always knew heaven would be a desperate place. Everything you desired coming in one fearful moment to greet you.
~ David Whyte
There is a faith in loving fiercely the one who is rightfully yours, especially if you have waited years and especially if part of you never believed you could deserve this loved and beckoning hand held out to you this way. I am thinking of faith now and the testaments of loneliness and what we feel we are worthy of in this world. — David Whyte, from "The Truelove," The Sea In You: Twenty Poems of Requited and Unrequited Love (Many Rivers Press, 2016)
~ David Whyte
You're the kind of man a man wants when a man wants a man.
~ David Wong
For our kind, there's always the burning to be more. (...) that is why true human beings feel more pain. Because we are more, but it's never quite enough - never.
~ David Zindell
Thus every day, from morning to night, I wait in despair for something. I wish I could be glad that I was born, that I am alive, that there are people and a world.
~ Dazai Osamu
The yawn of the void. A siren call for the unimaginative
~ Dean Cavanagh
Unrequited love is quantum romance
~ Dean Cavanagh
Desire is perpetual transformation.
~ Dean Young
I wasn't the only one who wished he was around more.... The trade-off we had to be content with was that our dad was Dean Martin.
~ Deana Martin
I stepped closer still. He closed his eyes again and covered my hand with his own. 'You smell of violets. You always smell of violets,' he said. 'You've no idea how many times I have walked these moors and smelled them and thought you were near. On and on I walked, following the scent of you, and you were never there. When I saw you in the hall tonight, I thought I had finally gone mad.
~ Deanna Raybourn
He isn't interested in simple. He wants what he wants. No matter how much trouble she is and no matter whether he even understands it himself.
~ Deanna Raybourn
I would kiss the ground where your shadow fell just to be near you.
~ Deanna Raybourn