Quotes About Yearning

All I wanted to do now was get back to Africa. We had not left it, yet, but when I would wake in the night I would lie, listening, homesick for it already.

I settled back. Brett moved close to me. We sat up close against each other. I put my arm around her and she rested against me comfortably. It was very hot and bright, and the houses looked sharply white. We turned out onto the Gran Via. Oh, Jake, Brett said, We could have have such a damned good time together. Yes, I said. Isn't it pretty to think so.

Oh, Jake," Brett said, "we could have had such a damned good time together.

The three of us sat at the table, and it seemed as though about six people were missing.

Quisiera ser el pez - pensó - con todo lo que tiene frente a mi voluntad y mi inteligencia solamente.

Kiss me just once more before we get there

like many people living in Europe, he would rather have been in America

I wanted it so much,' she said. 'I don't know why I wanted it so much. I wanted that poor kitty. It isn't any fun to be a poor kitty out in the rain.

God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had.

I wish I could see the glow from the lights.

I lay awake thinking and my mind jumping around. Then I couldn't keep away from it, and I started to think about Brett and my mind stopped jumping around and started to go in sort of smooth waves. Then all of a sudden I started to cry. (27)

Vaguely he wanted a girl but he did not want to have to work to get her. He would have liked to have a girl but he did not want to have spend a long time getting her. He did not want to get into the intrigue and the politics. He did not want to have to do any courting. He did not want to tell any more lies. It wasn't worth it. He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live along without consequences.

We can have everything. No, we can't. We can have the whole world. No, we can't. We can go everywhere. No, we can't. It isn't ours any more. Its ours. No, it isn't.

No dreaming may stand still, for this bodes no good. But if it becomes a dreaming ahead, then its cause appears quite differently and excitingly alive. The dim and weakening features, which may be characteristic of mere yearning, disappears; and then yearning can show what it really is able to accomplish.

While we may never find or receive the love from others that our hearts are desperate for, we can receive a love even greater than that of which we were deprived.

It's a troubling thing when your soul demands what your brain rejects.

When I kiss her I am kissing 1903.

Oscar Wilde wrote, "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is getting what one wants, and the other is not getting it." When

Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. —Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Sometimes they come sheepishly; sometimes they arrive desperate, dejected, enraged. They don't just miss sex, the act; they miss the feeling of connection, playfulness, and renewal that sex allows them. I invite you to join me in my conversations with these questers as we work toward opening up and coming a step closer to transcendence.

affairs are less about sex than about desire: the desire to feel desired, to feel special, to be seen and connected, to compel attention. All these carry an erotic frisson that makes us feel alive, renewed, recharged. It is more energy than act, more enchantment than intercourse.

In uncertainty lies the seed of wanting.

It's hard to experience desire when you're weighted down by concern.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is getting what one wants, and the other is not getting it." When