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Quotes About Yearning

The night has a thousand eyes and I'm a gypsy dancer still hungry for more.
~ Bob Miller
I want you so much, he said with such heart-tugging sincerity that to be fair, a translation from Turkish to English would have to flip a coin between want and love.
~ Bob Shacochis
You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It's a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one. You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life...but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what's missing.
~ Bono
The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That's never happened to me before. You know, on a long tour you do hear people saying they miss their pets. I never have. But last night I started really missing my dog. It's very odd, 'cause I don't have a dog.
~ Bono
Her dark hair was scattered and its beauty stung his eyes like smoke and ate into his heart.
~ Boris Pasternak
Intotdeauna omul neliber îÅŸi idealizeaz? nelibertatea.
~ Boris Pasternak
A?k bazen; asla sahip olamayaca??n birini sevmektir.
~ Boris Vian
Estoy desesperado y a la vez soy horriblemente feliz. Resulta muy agradable desear algo hasta ese punto.
~ Boris Vian
Savoir qu'il existe des passions et ne pas les ressentir, c'est affreux.
~ Boris Vian
Ebben? Ne andrò lontana" from Alfredo Catalani's La Wally
~ Brad Thor
He knows that for all the undeserved bounty of his life, she will always be there, at the edge of his vision, to remind him of all the things he can never have.
~ Brady Udall
Even in the midst of all this commotion she knows none of it really belongs to her, and marvels at the strange fact of her dearest wish: to be part of it, to give in to it's distractions, to find herself the owner of a life lived rather than a life endured. And then she looks into the face of Mother #3, worn smooth and almost featureless, with moist eyes that can't seem to settle on anything for more than a heartbeat at a time, and she knows this is a very dangerous wish.
~ Brady Udall
When she's next to him, when she rests her hand on his, his whole body aches with something like knowledge for all he has lost, the chances he will never have, to return such a touch, to fall of a horse or eat chinese food or shoot a crossbow (which has always been one of his most dear wishes), to receive a letter in the mail, to be kissed with longing or punched in the jaw.
~ Brady Udall
This man belongs to me, I want him!
~ Bram Stoker
Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
~ Bram Stoker
Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
~ Bram Stoker
I thought yesterday would never end. There was over me a yearning for sleep in some sort of blind belief that to wake would be to find things changed, and that any change must now be for the better.
~ Bram Stoker
Come to me, Arthur. Leave these others and come to me. My arms are hungry for you. Come, and we can rest together. Come, my husband, come!
~ Bram Stoker
But for the rest nothing amused him; nothing satisfied him. All was shadows, emptiness, echoes and dust.
~ Susanna Clarke
Something about the goat dancing made me want to cry.
~ Susanna Kaysen
sa's smell (the fragrance of a beautiful man) is what I miss the most. […] Like a virus his smell entered me and changed my cells, slowly, over years, until they craved only that smell, which was their oxygen.
~ Susanna Kaysen
Asa's smell (the fragrance of a beautiful man) is what I miss the most. […] Like a virus his smell entered me and changed my cells, slowly, over years, until they craved only that smell, which was their oxygen.
~ Susanna Kaysen
Naj ti bo vše? ali ne, pošiljam ti poljub in ne moreš ga vstaviti, ker v tem trenutku ves prosojen in lahkoten že leti preko oceana.
~ Susanna Tamaro
Vsako srce nosi v svojem najskrivnejšem koti?ku drobtinico vednosti- spominja se kraja, trenutka v katerem je bilo sre?no, in po tistem kraju se mu toži, tja se želi vrniti.
~ Susanna Tamaro