Quotes About Yearning

I tried not to love you," she said, "but it didn't work." He pulled her toward him, held her face. "I feel lucky," he said.

the thing about Steven is, everyone wants him to fill the hole we have in our lives.

She wanted to be his more than she wanted him to be faithful.

Her desire for him had been so great that she had been willing to accept a kind of lumpy half-love, flawed, temporal, and incomplete.

Rents remind me of the meat which the hungry and no hungry love .

Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.

Ya no temblaba. No sentía. Todo huía de mí, como los pájaros de Andersen, hacia las Tierras Calientes. No podía llorar, y me tendí suavemente en el suelo mientras oía, o creía oír, el despacioso vaivén de la puerta del pasillo, perdiendo fuerza. Y un campanilleo medio sofocado por el silencio, el silencio que iba repitiendo una voz sin sonido: «Ven, ven, ven…». Fue la primera vez que me morí.

Quizá la nostalgia sea un deseo; o el resplandor de un tiempo en el que creíamos ser felices.

Alicia en el mundo del espejo", pensé, más de una vez, contemplándome en él, desnuda y desolada con un gran deseo de atravesar su superficie, que parecía gelatinosa. Tristísima imagen aquella -la mía-, de ojos asustados, que era, tal vez, la imagen misma de la soledad.

Papá, es que yo quiero estar siempre en el cine, quiero vivir en el cine...

Sólo se sabía prisionero de aquel íntimo deseo, de aquel sueño, de aquella fiebre de la que nadie hacía partícipe. Pues esta sed era mayor que todas las sedes, y esta hambre, mayor que hambre alguna.

Boy with a maiden's glance, I seek you out, but you hear not, Unknowing that you are the charioteer Of my soul.

The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.

Travel is like adultery; one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live...in our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.

For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.

It is not customary to love what one has

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.

I'd wanted emotion but couldn't find it here, so I settled for motion.

The more I saw, however, the more I needed to see. I tried to settle down back home in Los Angeles, but I missed that feeling, that rush. I went to see a doctor about it. He told me I should slow down for a while, take a break. I just nodded and left, booked a flight out that day. It didn't seem possible to stop.

No one seemed to understand. I'd go to movies, see friends, but after a couple days I'd catch myself reading plane schedules, looking for something, someplace to go: a bomb in Afghanistan, a flood in Haiti. I'd become a predator, endlessly gliding in saltwater seas, searching for the scent of blood.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name." "Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself