Quotes About Yearning

The desire of the moth for the star,Of the night for the morrow,The devotion to something afarFrom the sphere of our sorrow.

Let me set my mournful dittyTo a merry measure;Thou wilt never come for pity,Thou wilt come for pleasure.

Oh,lift me as a wave,a leaf,a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life!I bleed!

We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell Of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever Should come near.

The desire of the moth for the star

I can give not what men call love; But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the heavens reject not: The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow?

I think one is always in love with something or other

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell Of saddest thought.

I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me- who knows how? To thy chamber-window, Sweet!

Oscar Wilde said that the gods punish us in two ways: first, they don't give us what we want, then, they do. He forgot the third way: we finally see the cost of getting it.

Wanting someone so much that his very presence takes your breath away is one of the most thrilling happenings in life. Not getting him in no way diminishes this.

Let them look upon virtue and pine because they have lost her.

Put salt in our mouths that we may thirst for you.' Amen. (Prayer of St Augustine)

C'mon, Tinker," he said. "Janis really wants to fuck Bruce.

Singing wordlessly over the song's (and the album's) final moments, Bruce evokes the opening bars of "Something in the Night," and the chill cloaking the entire album: the creeping suspicion that the things that make you feel the most alive will turn out to be some combination of unobtainable, worthless, and self-destructive.

To fantasies', he said. 'Tell me about yours.' His eyes were a bright, liquid blue, and his lips were parted in a half smile.

I'd wade through slaughter ... To drink your bathwater.

there had to be more than Louisa would ever see in her life! And when you took into account

Some dreams you chase others chase you!

I wait for this rare and fleeting event because I can't think of anything else worth waiting for.

Her presence enables my absence.

They say desire is this endless loop. You can't get out of it even when you get what you desire." "Why is that?" "Because as soon as you get what you want, you're going to want it again, or want more. And since you can never really be satisfied, you suffer. Or if you use up what you desired, you suffer even more.

Cuanto más deseamos algo, mayor es nuestro miedo a no conseguirlo.

To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.