Quotes About Yearning

She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women, Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say. The only things she said when he released her from his embrace was, 'You don't know how happy I am to be with you.' That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.

Nostalgia seems something like the pain of ignorance, of not knowing. You are far away, and I don't know what has become of you. My country is far away, and I don't know what is happening there.

Con ello no quiero decir que haya dejado de amarla, que la haya olvidado, que su recuero haya empalidecido; al contrario; permanece dentro de mí constantemente como una callada nostalgia; la anhelo como se anhela algo que se ha perdido definitivamente.

He reflected that he had only one life and that he wanted to live it somewhere else.

I might put it another way: Franz felt his book life to be unreal. He yearned for real life, for the touch of people walking side by side with him, for their shouts. It never occurred to him that what he considered unreal (the work he did in the solitude of the office or library) was in fact his real life, whereas the parades he imagined to be reality were nothing but theater, dance, carnival- in other words, a dream.

he tried to remind himself , don't think about her! don't think about her! he said to himself, i am sick with compassion

Our dreams prove that to imagine-to dream about things that have not happened-is among mankind's deepest needs.

We can never know what to want, because living only one life, we can neither compare it with our precious lives nor perfect it in our lives to come

The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.

Vê um jovem que se afasta da vida dela e se vai, parra sempre inacessível. Hipnotizada, nada pode fazer senão olhar esse pedaço da sua vida que se afasta, não pode senão olhá-lo e sofrer. Experimenta uma sensação inteiramente nova que se chama nostalgia.

Plus vaste est le temps que nous avons laissé derrière nous, plus irrésistible est la voix qui nous invite au retour

le but que l'on poursuit est toujours voilé. Une jeune fille qui a envie de se marier a envie d'une chose qui lui est tout à fait inconnue. Le jeune homme qui court après la gloire n'a aucune idée de ce qu'est la gloire. Ce qui donne un sens à notre conduite nous est toujours totalement inconnu. (partie III, ch. 10)

She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell.

Wer den Ort verlassen will, an dem er lebt, der ist nicht glücklich.

I always dream of some great unexpected infidelity. But I have not yet been able to escape my bigamous state. Milan Kundera, The Paris Review, summer 1984 no. 92

Mimpi-mimpi kita membuktikan bahwa untuk berimajinasi-bermimpi mengenai hal-hal yang tidak terjadi-adalah kebutuhan manusia yang paling dalam.

Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to demand-free and asking but his company.

y, si caminaba, caminaba sólo porque el alma, llena de intranquilidad, exige movimiento y no es capaz de permanecer en el mismo sitio, porque cuando no se mueve empieza a doler terriblemente.

He yearned for one long embrace with Sabina, yearned never to say another sentence, another word, to let his orgasm fuse with that orgiastic thunder of music. And lulled by that blissful imaginary uproar, he fell asleep.

It is completely selfless love: Tereza didn't want anything; She didn't ever ask him to love her back. Nor has she ever asked herself questions like: does he love me? Does he love me more than I love him? Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. The reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved.

Porque Lucie, la mujer a la que tanto amé y que se me escapó de un modo totalmente incomprensible en el último momento, es, claro está, la diosa de la huida, la diosa de la carrera vana, la diosa del vapor, y sigue teniendo mi cabeza entre sus manos.

Mit einer Frau zu schlafen und mit einer Frau einzuschlafen sind nicht nur zwei verschiedene, sondern geradazu gegensätzliche Leidenschaften. Liebe äußert sich nicht im Verlangen nach Liebesakt (dieses Verlangen betrifft unzählige Frauen), sondern im Verlangen nach dem gemeinsamen Schlaf (dieses Verlangen betrifft nur eine einzelne Frau).

Ela encostou-lhe a boca ao ventre e ele sentiu contrair-se-lhe o sexo sob as carícias dela, refugiar-se no seu interior, fugir diante dela, cada vez mais pequeno, cada vez mais ansioso. E sabia que Kamila media pela recusa do seu corpo a amplitude do seu amor por outra mulher. Sabia que ela estava a fazer-se sofrer horrivelmente e que quanto mais sofresse mais o faria sofrer e mais se obstinaria em toca com os lábios húmidos o seu corpo sem força.

Tinha um rosto bonito e vazio. Suficientemente bonito para atrair os homens e suficientemente vazio para deixar que nele se perdessem todas as suas súplicas. Além disso, era um rosto orgulhoso,e Jakub sabia: orgulhoso não da sua boniteza, mas do seu vazio.