Quotes About Yearning

Desire is the starting point of all achievement.

The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE.

DESIRE—knowing what you want.

Life is an everlasting question-mark! That which we want most is always in the embryonic distance of the future. Our power to acquire is always a decade or so behind our power to DESIRE! And, if we catch up with the thing we want we no longer want it!

Why did he write to her, "I can't live without you?" And why did she write to him "I can't live without you?" For he went west and she went east and they both lived.

One Parting Why did he write to her, I can't live without you? And why did she write to him, I can't live without you? For he went west, she went east, And they both lived.

Le poete est un animal marin qui vit sur terre et qui voudrait voler.

A tough will counts. So does desire. So does a rich soft wanting. Without rich wanting nothing arrives.

I HAVE ransacked the encyclopedias And slid my fingers among topics and titles Looking for you. And the answer comes slow. There seems to be no answer. Old-fashioned Requited Love I shall ask the next banana peddler the who and the why of it. Or—the iceman with his iron tongs gripping a clear cube in summer sunlight—maybe he will know.

There are hungers for a nameless bread out of the dust of the hard earth, out of the blaze of the calm sun.

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly the air. –

An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, 'Come and find me, come and find me'.

Apuré el último sorbo de café y ña contemplé en silencio unos instante. Pensé en lo mucho que deseaba refugiarme en aquella mirada huidiza que se temía transparente, vacía. Pensé en la soledad que iba a asaltarme aquella noche cuando me despidiece de ella, sin más trucos ni historias con que engañar su compañía. Pensé en lo poco que tenía que ofrecerle y en lo mucho que quería recibir de ella.

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

We looked at each other in the half-light, searching for words that didn't exist.

I carried the trace of her lips, of her breath on my skin through streets full of faceless people escaping from offices and shops.

The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. He was given wealth, fame, and power, yet his soul yearned only for spiritual peace so that he could silence the shadows in his heart...

Those who aren't able to fall in love suffer all the more.

You don't know what thirst is until you drink for the first time.

The same thing that had happened with the flowers was happening with my longing: once I held it in my hands, I didn't know where to put it.

She wanted to believe him with the yearning that comes with the suspicion that truth hurts, and that cowards live longer and better, even if they do so in the prison of their own lies.

I know you're not a man of faith, Edmond, but faith is found when one isn't looking for it and the day will come when your heart, and not your mind, will long for the purification of the soul.

Aquella tarde de brumas y llovizna, Clara Barceló me robó el corazón, la respiración y el sueño. Al amparo de la luz embrujada del Ateneo, sus manos escribieron en mi piel una maldición que habría de perseguirme durante anhos

Mil veces he querido regresar y perderme en un recuerdo del que apenas puedo rescatar una imagen robada al calor de las llamas.