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Quotes About Yearning

The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up, without ever being somewhere. What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don't know where that elsewhere is.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Yes, ever since that time I began looking upward and awaiting their arrival. Either they will transform my monotonous and boring life completely, or they can take me away with them. Is there an alternative?
~ Emile Habiby
It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!
~ Émile Zola
Il a besoin de cette femme pour vivre comme on a besoin de boire et de manger.
~ Émile Zola
an insane love for nudity desired but never possessed (42)
~ Émile Zola
Quand mes mains te prennent, elles ne tiennent qu'un rien de ton être... Où es-tu donc tout entière, pour que j'aille t'y chercher ?
~ Émile Zola
Hanya orang-orang tak berumah, yang memang sudah tidak punya apa-apa dan karenanya tidak mungkin kehilangan apa-apa, yang ingin melihat tembak-menembak dimulai. Lisa, kepada Quenu
~ Émile Zola
A iubi, a iubi! È™i acest cuvânt pe care nu-l pronunÈ›a, care vibra de la sine în ea, o mira È™i o f?cea s? surâd?.
~ Émile Zola
La nuit, je m'éveille, serrant le vide, serrant ton rêve.
~ Émile Zola
Cómo hacerla callar? ¿Cómo decirle a Denise que la adoraba, que ahora sólo existía ella?, que le sacrificaba todos sus antiguos amoríos de un día?
~ Émile Zola
Y a sabe que soy todo suyo - susurró, a modo de conclusión-. Haga conmigo lo que quiera.
~ Émile Zola
À cette heure, elle voulut le mal, le mal que personne ne commet, le mal qui allait emplir son existence vide et la mettre enfin dans cet enfer dont elle avait toujours peur.
~ Émile Zola
the dead flesh of the beauty of his dreams (49)
~ Émile Zola
Sentía un abatimiento grande, agujetas,cansancio, y al mismo tiempo una excitación, unas ganas de echar a andar, de huir de si misma, de no verse ni oirse!
~ Emilia Pardo Bazán
I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!
~ Emily Bronte
The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I'm tired of being enclosed here. I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.
~ Emily Bronte
How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
~ Emily Bronte
I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain.
~ Emily Bronte
In every cloud, in every tree – filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men, and women – my own features mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!
~ Emily Bronte
Si es cierto que yo te maté, persígueme. Se asegura que la víctima persigue a su asesino. Hazlo, pues, sigueme, hasta que me enloquezcas. Pero no me dejes solo en este abismo. ¡no puedo vivir sin mi vida! ¡no puedo vivir sin mi alma!
~ Emily Bronte
He shall never know how I love him
~ Emily Bronte
I wish I could hold you, she continued bitterly, till we were both dead!
~ Emily Bronte
Le tengo constantemente en mi pensamiento, aunque no siempre como una cosa agradable. Tampoco yo me agrado siempre de mí misma. No hables más de separarnos, porque eso es irrealizable.
~ Emily Bronte
Come in! come in !' he sobbed. 'Cathy, do come. Oh do -once more! Oh! my heart's darling! hear me this time - Catherine, at last!
~ Emily Bronte