Quotes About Yearning

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.

I think after orbiting for a while and looking at the surface, I think the natural tendency is to want to experience it, to go down there and touch it. I started thinking about the Apollo astronauts who orbited the moon and didn't land - that must have been agonizing!

We all want to be carried away to a whole other world and have romantic tendencies about escaping to an exotic place and being swept off our feet.

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris du coeur over this, that, and the other.

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

The 'Moonlighting' tension of the couple that obviously never can get together, there's an innate sort of fun and tension in that.

The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

I used to have a private... life. Now I dont have that... I have no freedom. I miss my normal life terribly. Its a prison-like life I'm leading.

A woman's desire is either terrifying, or it's ignored.

I want to cry in your arms for a hundred years; I want to wake up in your arms for a hundred years.

I'm desperate to get inside Lucy's pants

For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and loneliness, an all-encompassing distaste for which he could not find the complementary inclination. He felt at times as though he had been born with a talent for which there was at present no objective.

Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

It can feel heavy with longing, and heavy with longing, in my mind, is preferable to hollow, which one also feels. If I'm heavy with longing, at least I have some idea of what I want.

Indragostita de propria-i nenorocire

romantic ambitions, there wasn't even such a place for her

Wings," she murmured, "oh, yes—to fly away with when he's tired of his play. Of course it was a man who conceived the idea of wings, otherwise Cupid would have been insupportable.

Crimson nor yellow roses nor The savor of the mounting sea Are worth the perfume I adore That clings to thee. The languid-headed lilies tire, The changeless waters weary me; I ache with passionate desire Of thine and thee. There are but these things in the world— Thy mouth of fire, Thy breasts, thy hands, thy hair upcurled And my desire.

Listening to music, I always have exactly the same feeling: something's missing. Never will I learn the cause of this gentle sadness, never will I wish to investigate it.