Quotes About Yearning

I feel as if there's a huge gulf separating me from all the lucky people in the world; they have so much to look forward to.

Till I was back in your arms again." She had a nice voice, and I hummed along

I keep thinking, won't somebody make a movie like what's inside my head, I'm always thinking that.

We wait for it, because we always wait for something that will be big, extraordinary and splendid, that will bring us great joy and fill us with pride while also reminding us that there exists something greater than locking and unlocking the office at the same hour, collecting chicks, flattering the boss, petty swindles, loveless embraces, downtime due to poor work coordination, the songs of Rinaldo Bali?ski, or vodka spilled on the table

I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.

Genius never desires what does not exist.

No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.

By faith he was a stranger in the land of promise, and there was nothing to recall what was dear to him, but by its novelty everything tempted his soul to melancholy yearning — and yet he was God's elect, in whom the Lord was well pleased!

As the sea, when it lies calm and deeply transparent, yearns for heaven, so may the pure heart, when it is calm and deeply transparent, yearn for the Good.

She awakens first at the touch of love; before that time she is a dream, yet in her dream life we can distinguish two stages: in the first, love dreams about her; in the second, she dreams about love.

This is the problem with hunger. This is the problem with love. There is no end in sight.

The thought of squeezing back into his stifling pre-war life stopped his breath in panic. In truth, the only time he breathed easily was with Harry, whom he loved with that same red raw ferocity — and whom he'd love with passion given the chance. But he wouldn't get that chance. The world forbade it.

Harry, who meant the world to him, and who the world would deny him. Harry, whom he loved.

I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)

What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.

If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.

When you pray for what you most want in the world, its opposite comes along with it. I was given a woman whom I truly loved and who truly loved me. The opposite side of such a love is the pain of its loss. I can only feel such pain today because until yesterday I knew that love.

Zembla, Zenda, Xanadu: All our dream-worlds may come true. Fairy lands are fearsome too. As I wander far from view Read, and bring me home to you.

She'd never shaken off the feeling of being damaged by her ignorance of Love, of what it might be like to be wholly possessed by the archetypal, capitalized djinn, the yearning towards, the blurring of the boundaries of the self, the unbuttoning, until you were open from your adam's-apple to your crotch: just words, because she didn't know the thing.

he wished he could have roots spreading under every inch of his lost soil, his beloved lost home, that he could have been part of something, that he could have been himself, walking down the road not taken, living a life in context and not the migrant's hollow journey that had been his fate

It was a rare thing to be granted one's heart's desire.

Oysa onu ac? ac? seviyorlard?, asla kar??l?k veremeyecek kadar tutkulu bir sevgi duyuyorlard? ona; kar??l?k vermeyen sevgisinin izin verdiÄŸi ölçüde seviyorlard? onu.

He stared into the fast-flowing waters and contemplated the tragedy of desire.

His mother had survived decades of marriage to his angry, disappointed, alcoholic father by developing what she called a "forgettery" instead of a memory. She woke up every day and forgot the day before. He, too, seemed to lack a memory for trouble, and woke up remembering only what he yearned for. But he did not act upon his yearning. She had left for America and that was for the best.