Quotes About Yearning

But that's a way to go on loving--a place, or a person. To miss it. In fact, to go away, to put yourself in the state of missing, is sometimes the simplest way to preserve love. [p. 56]

My need of your words: for such closeness there should be a word beyond love." Helen, to Leith, in "The Great Fire

Freud said he did not know what a woman wanted. Most husbands say the same. Ready for it, guys? The answer is to be chosen. To be intensely desired. To be lusted after. A woman's primary need is to be desired.

That the real source of all true longing is the human desire to attach ourselves to something infinite.

I am tired of these escape plans. I'm tired of everything. I just want it all to end.

Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?

Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.

Perhaps the only remaining attitude is one of waiting. By committing oneself to waiting, one neither blocks one's path toward faith (like those who defiantly affirm the void) nor besieges this faith (like those whose yearning is so strong, it makes them lose all restraint). One waits, and one's waiting is a hesitant openness, albeit of a sort that is difficult to explain.

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns beginThey think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

54. At Daybreak I LISTEN for him through the rain, And in the dusk of starless hours I know that he will come again; Loth was he ever to forsake me: He comes with glimmering of flowers 5 And stir of music to awake me. Spirit of purity, he stands As once he lived in charm and grace: I may not hold him with my hands, Nor bid him stay to heal my sorrow; 10 Only his fair, unshadowed face Abides with me until to-morrow.

Winged lovely moments, can I call you home?

Nothing has changed. It's still very simple. I miss him. I miss him every day. I miss him very much. But how would it be if that feeling was gone? I would not want that to happen. I told the shrink: it would not make me happy at all not to miss him anymore.

He has to forget you. He has to forget you and fall in love with me. That's what has to happen.

Lengsel. Hvad er lengsel igrunnen? tenkte han da han gikk videre. Lengsel. Det tommes hunger efter noget som kan fylle det. Men kan det tomme fylle det tomme? O store ven predikeren, du har for alle tider sagt det som kan sies om alle ting.

Per qualche motivo, tutto sommato, lo avrebbe di nuovo voluto neonato. Squittente e catastrofico, e che lo guardasse con occhi adoranti. Adesso non squittiva e non bruciava, ma come adorazione era senz'altro sullo scarso.

turned and cupped Dash's face. He almost never kissed men, especially ones he'd hired, but this time he wanted to. "Do you kiss?" Dash smiled. "I love to, but I'd figured you for the type who didn't." "I don't," Thorne said and kissed him.

Then please, Daddy, take me to the farm so we can have a sex retreat.

A veces morir es simplemente irse de un lugar, abandonar a todas las personas y las costumbres que uno quiere. Por ese motivo el exiliado que no desea morir sufre, pero el exiliado que busca la muerte, encuentra lo que antes no había conocido: la ausencia del dolor en un mundo ajeno." —La continuación

But this was just filling in the time pleasantly. He wants someone to worship, not to know.

But nostalgia was the first disease associated with time, its victims longing for days gone by.7

A little beaver doesn't satisfy you for long.

Who's got my Jaffa Cakes? You know I can't function without Jaffa Cakes.

Necessity is very often the mother of romance.

and sprang well from her bed." Helena