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Quotes About Yearning

She was more of a business partner to him than anything else. Some of her appreciated that. But rustling yet within her was another person who wanted to bathe and perfume herself...and be taken, carried away, and peeled back by a force she could sense, but never articulate, even dimly within her mind.
~ Robert James Waller
Ecco perché sono su questo pianeta, in questo tempo, Francesca. Non per viaggiare o fare fotografie, ma per amarti. Adesso lo so. Per molti più anni di quanti non ne abbia vissuti, ho continuato a precipitare dall'orloo di un luogo immenso e altissimo. E in tutti questi anni precipitato verso di te
~ Robert James Waller
I don't want to need you, 'cause I can't have you.
~ Robert James Waller
He had been here just a few minutes before,she was lying where the water had run down his body,and she found that intensely erotic.Almost everything about Robert Kincaid had begun to seem erotic to her.
~ Robert James Waller
no soy más que un hombre. Y todas las elucubraciones filosóficas que puedo conjurar no me salvan de desearte, todos los días, a cada momento ni el despiadado gemido del tiempo, el tiempo que nunca puedo pasar contigo, dentro de mi cabeza. Te amo profundamente, totalmente. Y será siempre así.
~ Robert James Waller
Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again.
~ Robert James Waller
realities that kept the music silent, the dreams in a box.
~ Robert James Waller
We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.
~ Robert Joseph Bob Dole
I wish I were there to watch the operations and changes; but alas! I am in Kansas scratching for a living.
~ Robert L. O'Connell
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Strange how we had longed for the feel and smell of land when afloat and now longed for the touch of ship and spray now that we were ashore. No
~ Robert Low
Gored by the climacteric of his want,he stalls above me like an elephant.
~ Robert Lowell
Dearest, I cannot loiter here in lather like a polar bear.
~ Robert Lowell
The twinkling steel above me is a star; I am a fallen Christmas tree. Our car Races through seven red-lights—then the road Is unpatrolled and empty, and a load Of ply-wood with a tail-light makes us slow. I turn and whisper in her ear. You know I want to leave my mother and my wife, You wouldn't have me tied to them for life Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Time runs, the windshield runs with stars.
~ Robert Lowell
We wished our two souls might return like gulls to the rock. In the end, the water was too cold for us.
~ Robert Lowell
Why do we hunger so for vicious things? Our wishes bend the statues of the gods.
~ Robert Lowell
You lie in my insomniac arms, as if you drank sleep like coffee.
~ Robert Lowell
Happiness? No, it's not there for me.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
Let it be the house, please let it be the house.
~ Robert Marasco
GIs were good for a Hershey's bar.
~ Robert Masello
Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.
~ Robert McKee
The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire
~ Robert W. Service
There's a land—oh, it beckons and beckons, And I want to go back—and I will.
~ Robert W. Service