Quotes About Yearning

Loneliness. There is no worse loneliness than the loneliness of a dog who never was anything but lonely, because the loneliness is normal, like a heartbeat. Do you think it's easy to go to the place inside a dog where the loneliness is, when you can't even do it with yourself?

I should know better than to try and measure the breadth and depth of love by its noise and dramas but there are times that I crave it, as if it's proof that love is alive.

All over the world men and women are looking wistfully to heaven.

I cannot get you close enough, I said to him, pitiful as a child, and never can and never will. We cannot get from anyone else the things we need to fill the endless terrible need, not to be dissolved, not to sink back into sand, heat, broom, air, thinnest air. And so we revolve around each other and our dreams collide. It is embarrassing that it should be so hard. Look out the window in any weather. We are part of all that glamour, drama, change, and should not be ashamed.

i don't want to hate the president i don't want to go to harvard i don't want to win the pulitzer prize i just want to sit in my bathtub and think about relationships i will never have with people i will never meet and then go lay in my bed with a magnifying glass and count all the stiches in my sheets until i fall asleep and wake up to repeat again.

i want you to lick my bellybutton while looking up at me.

It was the yearning she related to. Shriver seemed to understand the specific human pain of wanting and pushing away at the same time. It left her with a gorgeous ache, and when she turned the last page of the book and closed the cover, Norah's connection to the writer felt absolute. It was a breathless, consuming rapture....

There's no statute of limitations on missing someone. I'm sure there are still times when it feels like only yesterday." It

That looks so delicious. My people would never let me have something like that. But maybe you will!

He looked so lost, so soulful, so lonely. I wanted him to kiss me now. I wanted to let him know I was his for all eternity.

I'm looking for someone to quench my thirst-for all eternity" -Luna Maxwell

As I lay alone in my bed, I prayed for eternal darkness and a sun that never rose.

I can't rest with you so close to me. I feel more alive than ever.

But you love her. You could love her.

Why does my name sound so pretty when he says it?" -Maisie

One is impelled to glance across the table, and since you went away I have done that so often that my eyes must have worn some varnish from the empty chair.

You know you're in love with somebody when you wake up next to them, comfortable despite your breath smelling like the week-old water at the bottom of a vase, when you are terribly excited to see them, to talk to them again, having missed them after all that sleep.

He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has sat here, waiting at these traffic lights on his way somewhere without you, hoping to meet someone with the capacity to consign you to an anecdote, to be eventually confused with others

the brute will then invite the girl back to his place of dwelling, where he will achieve insertion. He will experience delights so heavenly, so incredible... delights, that have been so cruelly denied to me

They want you or they don't

i'm never gonna know you now, but i'm gonna love you anyhow

Tired of dancing on a pot of gold flake paint

Abrieron la puerta y se recibieron a besos: besos que erizaban los párpados, la piel, el vello púbico, que ocultaban los compromisos, los sueños, que despojaban de la ropa, el futuro, la inteligencia.

In case there is any question in your mind," he said, cupping her face with his hands. "What I want, what I most desire, the loveliest sight on this dark earth, is you.