Quotes About Yearning

She wished she had a little yellow house of her own, with a flower box full of real flowers and herbs – pansies and rosemary – and a sweet lover who would swing dance with her in the evenings and cook pasta and read poetry aloud.

The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.

If I believed I could free myself, by dying, from amorous thoughts that bind me to the earth, I would already have laid these troubled limbs and their burden in the earth myself:

böyle kaçar?m ölümün vuruÅŸlar?ndan; ama h?zl? deÄŸil kaç???m, arzumun benimle gelemeyeceÄŸi kadar, hep geldiÄŸi gibi sessiz yürürüm, yoksa ölü sözler aÄŸlat?r insanlar?, oysa ben yaln?z aks?n isterim gözyaÅŸlar?m.

I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny.

And there was that trick he did with time, making it speed up when we were together and drag til I saw him again.

There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One's Inability to attain One's Heart's Desire-The Other Is To Have It!

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!

A You Wish; . . . . . . . . .Often, I wish that I were YOU: THAT I might better know; HOW TO LOVE YOU TRUE:

gluttony. Six weeks I have been at sea, and every wave looking just like the one before, in wet procession.

All which I took from thee I did but take,Not for thy harms,But just that thou might'st seek it in My arms.

sombra que sucesivo anhela el viento...

Siento haber de dejar deshabitado cuerpo que amante espíritu ha ceñido; desierto un corazón siempre encendido, donde todo el Amor reinó hospedado.

Yo ansí, náufrago amante y peregrino, que en borrasca de amor por Lisis muero, sigo insano furor de alto destino.

I can go years thinking that it seems impossible that I will ever satisfy that appetite again and then it is easy to satisfy and no one notices or cares, nor does it make me happy, when loneliness surrounds me like water I've already drowned in without dying.

They don't guards me! They make me be dam' fool clowns for Neptuners to laugh at. 'Get sky hook! Get bucket steam-ice!' That's what them lizards-men holler at me.

After sex & metaphysics,— … what? What you have made.

You don't have to have a home to get homesick. You just have to want one. The whole history of your wee planet is nothing but people looking for a home.

Sometimes something vanishes, and afterwards you can't stop looking at the place where it used to be.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

I'd love to get youOn a slow boat to China.All to myself alone.