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Quotes About Yearning

I love him, oh! I love him; but he won't let himself be loved.
~ Aristophanes
Have you ever been struck by a sudden desire for - soup?
~ Aristophanes
MYRRHINE Why, you've no blanket. CINESIAS It's not the silly blanket's warmth but yours I want. MYRRHINE Never mind. You'll soon have both. I'll come straight back. CINESIAS The woman will choke me with her coverlets. MYRRHINE Get up a moment. CINESIAS I'm up high enough. MYRRHINE
~ Aristophanes
What heart, what soul, what bollocks could long endure this plight, having no one to shag in the middle of the night?
~ Aristophanes
Man is his desire.
~ Aristotle
There is only one driving force: The desire.
~ Aristotle
I want to deceive him just long enough to make him want me..
~ Armistead Maupin
Do you always make things up? Always. Why? Michael shrugged. 'I want to deceive him just enough to make him want me.' What's that from? Blanche DuBois. In Streetcar.
~ Armistead Maupin
Dream! That's all you need to do.
~ Arnold Arre
It is always the man who has tasted life who demands more of it.
~ Arnold Bennett
To be loved without a shred of any reserve is a necessity for me.
~ Arnold Bennett
He had sometimes wondered if the real reason why men sought danger was that only thus could they find the companionship and solidarity which they unconsciously craved.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
God was just this black void that we cried into.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
He knew now that when power and ambition and curiosity were satisfied, there still were left the longings of the heart.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
He knew now that when power and ambition and curiosity were satisfied, there still were left the longings of the heart. No one had really lived until they had achieved that synthesis of love and desire which he had never dreamed existed until he came to Lys. He
~ Arthur C. Clarke
it would be ready again to lift another companion toward the shining silence which it could never reach.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Nowhere in Rama had there been any trace of artistic expression; everything was purely functional. Perhaps the Ramans felt that they already knew the ultimate secrets of the universe, and were no longer haunted by the yearnings and aspirations that drove mankind.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
The cause of suffering is desire
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I had no friends who would call upon me and break the monotony of my daily existence.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
That delicately bronzed skin, almost oriental in its coloring, that raven hair, the large liquid eyes, the full but exquisite lips,—all the stigmata of passion were there. But I was sadly conscious that up to now I had never found the secret of drawing it forth. However, come what might, I should have done with suspense and bring matters to a head tonight. She could but refuse me, and better be a repulsed lover than an accepted brother.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Pero me horroriza la aburrida rutina de la existencia. Tengo ansias de exaltación mental.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
La historia de la humanidad está escrita por personas que quieren algo que no pueden tener.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Yes, sweeting, I think you're incredibly sexy. And I would love nothing more than to take you back to my place and make your toes curl. -Kyrian
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon