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Quotes About Yearning

Got a hardon in my fist, Don't be pissed, Re-enlist-- Snap--to, Slothrop! Jackson, I don't give a fuck, Just give me my ruptured duck! Snap--to, Slothrop! No one here can love or comprehend me, They just look for someplace else to send...me... Tap my head and mike my brain, Stick that needle in my vein, Slothrop, snap to!
~ Thomas Pynchon
You're hungry, Denis?" "Really. Hey, like Godzilla always sez to Mothra–why don't we go eat some place?
~ Thomas Pynchon
Take what I've got. You've been good. Phil, at that moment in that place that smelled of years felt in his throat what he'd felt once before and dear God knows never expected nor wanted to feel again, for the loss of it breaks your heart.
~ Thomas Savage
Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can't I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I'd like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one.
~ Katherine Mansfield
How beautiful she loked, but there was nobody to see, nobody.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Last night I spent in her arms - and tonight I hate her - which being interpreted, means that I adore her; that I cannot lie in my bed and not feel the magic of her body. I feel more powerfully all those so-termed sexual impulses with her than I have with any man. She enthrals, enslaves me - and her personal self - her body absolute - is my worship.
~ Katherine Mansfield
He would sit very still on the doorstep And dream--O, that he had a friend! Somebody to come when he called them, Somebody to catch by the hand, Somebody to sleep with at night time, Somebody who'd quite understand.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Oh, waters - do not cover me! I would look long and long at those beautiful stars! Oh my wings - lift me - lift me I am not so dreadfully hurt...
~ Katherine Mansfield
I long to do wild, passionate things.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Even the photographs were on the mantelpiece and the medicine bottles on the shelf above the wash-stand. Her clothes lay across a chair—her outdoor things, a purple cape and a round hat with a plume in it. Looking at them she wished that she was going away from this house, too. And she saw herself driving away from them all in a little buggy, driving away from everybody and not even waving.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Leila was sure ifhe partner didn't come and she had to listen to that marvellous music and to watch the others sliding, gliding over the golden floor, she would die at least, or faint, or lift her arms and fly out of one of those dark windows that showed the stars.
~ Katherine Mansfield
la satisfacción del deseo implica también la muerte del deseo.
~ Katherine Neville
Even if I were half dead, drugged to the gills, deaf, dumb, and blind, I would know you were here. How can you expect me to rest when you arouse such madness in me?
~ Kathleen Baldwin
This time, there are no tears. This time, there is only emptiness and I feel it set in the straight line of my mouth. I am not strong enough for this. I want an earthquake, a hurricane, anything - even a devil, the one with the cloven hoof - Mrs. Leed's unfortunate 13th child - to rush out and stomp on me, break me into little pieces and hurl me to the stars, let me go back with those people I love. Please.
~ Kathleen DeMarco
moment." Ashton rose from his chair.
~ Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
I can't leave you alone." He touched his lips to the smoothly rising slope of her shoulder. "The thought of you stumbles the beat of my heart and arouses such a hunger in me that I must seek you out or groan beneath the torture of it. You have chained me to you, Erienne. The beast is your slave." -Lord Saxton
~ Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
Aye, milord." She snuggled close to him, but his low, wheezing laughter made her draw back again to try to see the eyes that were only a dark shadow behind the silken cloth. "Something amuses you?" "Sleep! 'Twill be impossible with you in my arms." "Shall I go?" she questioned, resting a hand on his chest. "Never!" He caught her to him in a fierce embrace, burying his face against her throat. -Erienne & Lord Saxton
~ Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
air, and even the rain could not wash the
~ Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
Wild is a word like 'soul'. Such a thing may not exist, but we want it, and we know what we mean when we talk about it.
~ Kathleen Jamie
What I wouldn't give to share one more morning with my dad.
~ Kathleen Long
There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.
~ Kathleen Norris
Listening to all words--the silent words of nature, the words of friends and enemies, and the words of scripture--can become an exercise in human yearning and divine response, flowing in and out of one's life like a river current.
~ Kathleen Norris
And she knew that no matter how fast she moved, she could not reach her mother quickly enough, and the doctor would be too slow, and tomorrow would be terrible in a way that would make her long for the security of all her old dissatisfactions.
~ Kathleen O'Dell
It's hard to miss something that you have never had.
~ Kathleen Olmstead