Quotes About Yearning

When you get right down to it, we don't ever want to know one another too well. We want there to be that mystery. Where there's mystery, there's hope.

You get exactly what you want, Anatole's always suspected, only when you get it it's no longer what you want, you need something else.

Having without having: it's possible, isn't it, that that's worse than not having at all?

Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her.

To seek the breast of darkness and be suckled by the night.

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

A man gets tied up to the ground, he gives the world its saddest sound.

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

The fact that man never is satisfied with any stage of his finite development, the fact that nothing finite can hold him, although finitude is his destiny, indicates the indissoluble relation of everything finite to being-itself.

Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat.

to live means to lack something at every moment

Car j'ai vécu de vous attendre, Et mon coeur n'était que vos pas.

Ces jours qui te semblent vides Et perdus pour l'univers Ont des racines avides Qui travaillent les déserts

it is only when you don't care that you don't desire

Does your heart still throb at my very name? Do you still see my soul in your dreams? from "Sentimental Dialogue

Ariette III Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville ; Quelle est cette langueur Qui pénètre mon coeur ? Ô bruit doux de la pluie Par terre et sur les toits ! Pour un coeur qui s'ennuie, Ô le chant de la pluie ! Il pleure sans raison Dans ce coeur qui s'écoeure. Quoi ! nulle trahison ? Ce deuil est sans raison. C'est bien la pire peine De ne savoir pourquoi Sans amour et sans haine Mon coeur a tant de peine !

Ton cÅ"ur bat-il toujours à mon seul nom ? - Toujours vois-tu mon âme en rêve ? - Non.

One foot in the door, the other one in the gutter; The sweet smell that they adore, I think I'd rather smother

Why do we only miss what we can't have when we can't have it, but do nothing to keep it when we can?

She wanted Mark to come back and to smell him and feel him and she wanted to tell him that they still beg for it from her, they still want her and what do you think about that Mark? I'm yours and I'm the slut of all sluts. She wanted to say, Markie you haven't taken it away from me I still have it. I still have what it takes. She thought, I could show you my insides, I could turn myself inside out for you, me, me, who everybody wants, me, who can swallow the whole world.

Women like Joe. They fall for him in that between-trains way.

When he sat on the Makepeace veranda, it was as if he'd gone to another country

She was thinking of the advantages she would have if only she were someone else.

What we find to love or to hate comes to us as a substitute for something else.