Quotes About Yearning

I want you, too, Hayes Cardwell, and that isn't the beer talking." They were so close she could see the shine of his dark eyes in the starlight. Without another word, he swept her up in his arms and carried her into the cabin.

He met her challenging gaze. "You really have no idea what is good for you," he said as he caged her against the side of the pickup with a hand on each side of her. I used to think you would be good for me," she said quietly, her voice rough with emotion.

The longing in him was a force of its own.

His gaze locked with hers. "I didn't know what my life was missing until I met you.

It felt like a kiss from a man whose reasons were strictly carnal. And I like it.

When I was six or seven, I would feel I was inside a box of earth and sky, and I would weep. Once I asked my mother: "Take me out of this box of earth and sky." She said, "I can't." Then I said, "I'm going."

Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer.

You are missing in my heart...!

The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang.

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.

I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

It doesn't matter how much money you've got, or how many connections, there's always something you want that's out of reach.

Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?

I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.

I want real love.

I always adored Cary Grant. I was fascinated by him. But I could never get too close to him.

It is that kind of space, that little space of longing, whether it is in something like romantic love, or whether it's in something like divine love. You know, that kind of search for something that's not quite in your grasp. It's a very powerful place to explore as an artist, because it's not necessarily sad.

Gravitation is the lust of the cosmos.

A year is a long time to live without the human contact of loved ones, fresh air, and gravity, to name a few.

I don't want to date. But I do have dreams about a great love.

As an actor, I am greedy.

I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.