Quotes About Yearning

I look back now with some anguish to each touch and glance, to every changing conjunction of limbs and heads and hands. I have lived it over every day for so long now that I am in danger of forgetting the true shape of how it was, because each time I go over it I wish that I had given a little more here or there, or at the very least said what was in my heart, so that he could have known how much it meant to me. But I was incapable, even when happy, of exposing myself thus far.

I would want someone I could love to madness, someone who was myself, only better, someone I could never get enough of looking at.

Pero cuando los espíritus están agobiados, huyen todos los apetitos.

seek for that one person who can love us as we all long to be loved.

Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.

If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.

The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much.

All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.

They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.

All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.

It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.

Oh - a diamond ring - and Rhett, do buy a great big one!

I want you more than I have ever wanted any woman—and I've waited longer for you than I've ever waited for any woman.

Longing hearts could only stand so much of longing.

She could never love anything or anyone so selflessly as they did. What a lonely feeling it was—and she had never been lonely in either body or spirit before.

Há uma penalidade sempre ligada às coisas que mais desejamos. É o isolamento. pg 637

it came to him that Tara, dear though it was, and the County folk, with their open hearts and open houses, were not enough. He wanted a wife.

My news is this, he answered, grinning down at her. I still want you more than any woman I've ever seen and now that Frank's gone, I thought you'd be interested to know it.

The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.

It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to.

All I can think about is how I wanted to share those firsts with Logan and how I never knew it was an impossibility because it had already been taken away from me.

I just wanted one more day." More tears welled up in her eyes. "But it would never be enough. I could keep asking for one more day for the rest of my life.

as long as I can still dream, I will dream of you.

I wouldn't change a thing. I want you. I'll always want you.