Quotes About Yearning

I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.

Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.

Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.

Crow walked toward her, arms outstretched like a man in a dream, which he was, in a way. Sometimes a dream is enough.

Where in this pukehole can a man get a drink? he said

It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said.

Man, I want to be someone's forbidden fruit." "Well, you are pretty fruity.

Man pines to live but cannot endure the days of his life.

Dear God. She ached, wanting something that she knew was a sin. Wanting a man who was sin itself.

But like the legless man, I'm unaccountably fascinated by those who can dance.

Boys mystified me, although I dreamed vaguely of men.

It's better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can't be yours, then never to love at all.

And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night.

A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.

It would not be better if men got what they wanted.

The grave is sooner cloy'd than men's desire.

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.

Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.

When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.

What do you want?" Sophronia was moved to exasperation. "Me? Stockings and breeches to come back in fashion. I do miss seeing a man's calves.

Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow.

Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.

Cultivate night-blooming jasmine near your bedroom window, and dream of men you've always longed for.

The audience falls in love with a leading man because he'll never belong to any of them.