Quotes About Yearning

Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.

The place was a familiar as breath but as far from his life now as the moon.

There was at time in my life where all I wanted was a relationship, and I thought that was the most important thing.

My life was over, finished, and I'd never seen Pearl Jam play live

She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.

Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.

I thought I would spend the rest of my life searching for little reminders of you.

I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.

I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.

All we really want in life is to connect to other human beings, and when you desperately want to connect physically to one specific human being and you can't? That's something I find compelling.

I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe, the staff of my life. —Jane Gardiner

All my life I have been restless-- I have felt there is something more wonderful than gloss-- than wholeness-- than staying at home.

Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.

We think you'll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That's what makes a woman come alive.

His eyes glazed over there on the grass of the drainage gully just behind the fence that ran along the back of his yard. In his last moments, he only wanted to go home.

I looked at the faces around me and I knew mine was like theirs. Faces with the blood drained away, tight faces, worried, lost. Faces like flowers torn from their roots and stuffed into a pretty vase, the colours draining fast. I had to get away from that town.

Speak to me, Rosa. Look this way just once, over here Rosa, where I am watching.

Ranije je koristila neku ?aroliju zvanu Paprat u sutonu. Bilo je kao udisanje Šopena i Edne Milej, i kad bi se taj miomiris širio s njene kose i ramena, znao sam da je zastava podignuta i da želi da bude osvojena.

Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town!

Ask the dust on the road! Ask the Joshua trees standing alone where the Mojave begins. Ask them about Camilla Lopez, and they will whisper her name.

Evanlyn could have kissed her.

The Doomed Spaceman ... Weightless, helpless, I'm locked on a track I can't reverse; For once glimpse of home, I would give back the universe. Constellation by constellation, I journey through. My destination Nowhere but death. Ted Walker

We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.