Quotes About Yearning

And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash.

BRICK [to the moon]: I envy you--you cool son of a bitch.

human beings dream of life everlasting. But most of them want it on earth and not in heaven.

He is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.

Why didn't it happen between us? Why did I fail? Why did you come close enough...and not closer?

I want what I'm afraid of and I'm afraid of what I want so that I'm like a storm inside that can't break loose!

Désirer, cela consiste à vouloir occuper un espace plus grand que celui qui vous est offert

I am the one who needs rescuing. Save me (…) Save me from going back to being the man I was before I came here. Save me from all the years of loneliness I'll have to endure without you in my arms. Save me from spending the rest of my life longing for a woman I can never have.

Can I sleep with you the whole time we're here, Laura? Can I? Oh, please say I can! Every eyes, except for the ever discreet Addison's, turned to the duke. Sterling cleared his throat awkwardly, a most endearing flush creeping up his jaw.

It is not enough to love you. It is not enough to want you destroyed.

This woman was truly what he wanted, and therefore he was truly afraid for the first time.

Sometimes missing things was the next best thing to having them.

Kiss me, she told him impulsively. Right now. Like you mean it. Like you might not get another chance. He did so, on the mouth, a long kiss that caused Pinch, standing in the doorway, to gasp and mutter in dismay. She closed her eyes and leaned into the kiss. So sweet, so exciting.

Once thought is pulled up short by a yearning that can only be known existentially, it is inevitable that conceptual discourse should give way to the birth of literature...

She's the first thing in my mind when I wake and the last thing in my mind before I sleep. I've never felt like this before, Zedd, never felt this alone before.

After last night, he felt that the first part, his fantasy of being with her, was just an empty wish.

Franca smiled to herself for a time before she spoke. "My heart belongs to someone.

Come to me, my love. I want you very badly right now." He nodded and started to reach for the Agiel on the side table. Denna touched his wrist. "Tonight, I want you without the Agiel. Please? Teach me what it's like without the pain?

And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today.

He'd wanted changes. It was just that he'd wanted things to stay the same, as well.

He couldn't help remembering how much he'd wanted a puppy when he was a little boy. Mind you, they'd been starving – anything with meat on it would have done.

In short, what people think they want is news, but what they really crave is olds.

What good's a god who gives you everything you want?

There's always something to eat, if you're hungry enough.