Quotes About Yearning

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

It's like we're born with a memory of something we've never seen. We yearn to return to a place we've never been. We mourn that loss and seek it every day, no matter what our religion, or none.

What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?

It's just the world seems a very spacious place without him.

It wasn't about opening her mind, it was about closing down the racket of thoughts and opening up her body. She was tingling and throbbing and hot, not so much from her desire specifically for rick, as from a very physical yearning for human touch, to be wanted and ravished by another person after such a long period without. His attention, his hunger, was the thrill; it was an ego massage which in itself was better than her breasts being fondled.

Quisiera darte todo lo que nunca hubieras tenido, y ni así sabrías la maravilla que es poder quererte

What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.

Ah, where will I findFlowers, come winter,And where the sunshineAnd shade of the earth?Walls stand coldAnd speechless, in the windThe weathervanes creak.

For our generation walks as in Hades, without the divine.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.

I learned only so great a love of music as to be discontented with my own sounds.

There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever.

The world is a drought when out of love.

What I'm looking for cannot be sold to me.

and before you, I never really knew what lonely was. I can't go a day without feeling like I'm missing something. Truth is, I am missing something. I'm missing you..

It was strange to think that right now, his mom, dad, and sister were living their ordinary lives back in Mesa. Didn't they notice his stuff in his room? Didn't they wonder who the kid was in the pictures with them? He would find a way back to them and make them remember. There had to be a way.

We want what we can't have, even when we have no right to demand it.

Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.

AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her. Then he found himself drawn back to it—because it reminded him of her.

Not having ice cream," she proclaimed, "is the culmination of all disasters!

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have

And yet, he was finding more and more that he didn't want to take his mind off her. Which was more potent? The pain of memory, or the pain of forgetting?

It is beautiful because it could have been. It should have been.