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Quotes About Yearning

I thought of myself as missing.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Det er sværere at give afkald på kærligheden end på livet.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Era come se in quel momento stesse contemplando al di là della sterminata pianura e oltre i vulcani l'enorme tumultuoso azzurro oceano stesso, percependolo ancora dentro il cuore: l'impazienza illimitata, la brama incommensurabile.
~ Lowry Malcolm
gone out somewhere—had he
~ Luanne Rice
With all our gifts, all the love we have for one another, what went wrong? That's what I want to know. That one missing piece." "Life, Mom
~ Luanne Rice
I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.
~ Lucy Grealy
When the moon rises tonight, think of me and I'll think of you.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Even if we never find it,' he said to Emily as they lingered in the New Moon garden under the violet sky of a long, wonderous northern twilight, on the last evening before he went away, 'there's something in the search for it that better than even the finding would be.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
She wanted summer; fields of daisies; seas misty with moonrise or purple with sunset; companionship; Teddy. In such moments she always knew she wanted Teddy.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Human nature is always desirous of what one has not got!
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Ja osobiÅ›cie mam tylko jedno marzenie - odezwaÅ' siÄ™ przyciszonym gÅ'osem. - Powraca ono do mnie ciÄ…gle, chocia? wiem, ?e prawdopodobnie nigdy siÄ™ nie speÅ'ni. MarzÄ™ o wÅ'asnym domu, o rozpalonym ogniu w kominku, o wÅ'asnym kocie i psie, o odgÅ'osie kroków przyjacióÅ', którzy przyszli w odwiedziny i - marzÄ™ o tobie.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Oh Marilla, ansiar pelas coisas é metade do prazer proporcionado por elas - exclamou Anne - Você pode até não conseguir essas coisas, mas nada pode lhe impedir de ter a diversão de ansiar por elas - Anne
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
I ought to have ... become a star in the sky. Instead of which I have remained stuck on earth.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Nati vivi, volevano vivere.
~ Luigi Pirandello
This awful fact…that you can be beside someone, looking them in the eyes…as I was looking a certain person in the eyes one day…and you can see you're a beggar at a gate through which you'll never enter; whoever does go in, it won't be you, ever, you with your world inside your head, the world you see and touch…
~ Luigi Pirandello
Ah che tentazione di prenderle il viso tra le mani per costringerla a guardare nell'abisso di due occhi ben altri da quelli da cui voleva essere guardata!
~ Luigi Pirandello
Gli uomini hanno in sé un superfluo, che di continuo inutilmente li tormenta, non facendoli paghi di nessuna condizione e sempre lasciandoli incerti del loro destino.
~ Luigi Pirandello
El jilguero canta en la jaulita colgada entre las cortinas de la ventana. ¿Siente quizá la primavera que se aproxima? Ay de mí, quizá la siente también el antiguo tronco de nogal con el que fue hecha mi silla, que ahora cruje con el canto del jilguero. Tal vez se hablan, con ese canto y con este crujido, el pájaro enjaulado y el nogal reducido a silla.
~ Luigui Pirandello
I understand only that a vast void, an emptiness, is needing to be filled. O the things we grasp at.
~ Luke Davies
How easy it is to feel paralyzed by obligations. How easy it is to feel lost and insignificant and unable to know what is best, to feel adrift while yearning for purpose.
~ Lyanda Lynn Haupt
The more I see you," he said quietly, "the more I want you.
~ Lynn Kurland
It was not a good-morning kiss, Suzette decided as his tongue slid out to urge her lips open. At least it wasn't to her. Good-morning kisses, in her mind, were sweet pecks. This was more of a good-morning, good-afternoon and good-evening kiss all in one, she thought as his mouth devoured hers. Or perhaps it was more of an I want to throw you in the straw, toss up your skirts and have my wicked way with you kind of kiss, she decided as his hands begam to roam.
~ Lynsay Sands
Annabel stopped rubbing the center of her lower back and ducked her head to hide the blush his words had brought on. It made Ross want to kiss her. Reminded
~ Lynsay Sands
Valerie sat back in her seat and sipped at her wine, doing her best to ignore the way Anders's leg was pressing against her own under the table. He had been touching, brushing up against, or sneaking caresses all night. First under cover of their working together in the kitchen and then under cover of the table as they'd eaten. He was driving her wild.
~ Lynsay Sands