Quotes About Yearning

He was her warrior to be loved and waited for and she would take what little of him she could get and wait for the rest.

The blues is just another name for not having any place

Voller Entsetzen begriffen sie, dass dies der letzte & schlimmste Trick des Dschungels war, dass er sie, indem er ihre Herzenswünsche erfüllte, dazu verleitete, ihre Träume aufzubrauchen, so dass sie, während ihr Traumleben ihnen entschlüpfte, so hohl & durchsichtig wie Glas wurden.

It is a rare thing to be granted your heart's desire.

Exilatul nu poate uita - si trebuie, prin urmare, sa simuleze - arsita uscata din Desh, fostul si viitorul lui taram, in care pana si Luna este fierbinte si picura ca niste lipii proaspete, date cu unt. O, cat de dor ii e de acea parte a lumii, unde soarele si luna sunt de genul masculin, dar lumina lor dulce si fierbinte are intotdeauna nume femeiesti!...

Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.

He needed her so badly, to reassure himself of his own existence

AÅŸk her ÅŸey deÄŸilse, hiçbir ÅŸeydir.

within minutes, the entire village was in the water, splashing about, falling over, getting up, moving steadily forwards towards the horizon; never looking back to shore ... come back, he beseeched his wife: nothing is happening. come back!

The motivations of desire are obscure even to the desirous, the desiring and the desired.

It was plain he needed to love and be loved; there was a tide of emotion in him that needed to wash over people and he hoped for a returning tide to wash over him.

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many painful ways deficient. Song turns them into something else. Song shows us a world that is worthy of our yearning, it shows us our selves as they might be, if we were worthy of the world

We seem to do little more than lurch between wanting and not wanting. Thus, the question naturally arises: Is there more to life than this? Might it be possible to feel much better (in every sense of better) than one tends to feel? Is it possible to find lasting fulfillment despite the inevitability of change?

You need something more from me—something I wasn't able to give you before.

I have nothing to make me feel good, except for you. The last thing I want to do is turn you into my new drug of choice.

Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?

Nearly unable to bear the thought of how much he needed her quiet strength, he closed his eyes and leaned his forehead against the cold glass.

I loved him so much, loved his fearlessness, his strength, even the ambition that would someday take him away from me.

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to is.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.

What you are longing for is longing for you.

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.