Quotes About Yearning

I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.

I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help.

Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.

That's the only place in all the lands we've ever heard of that we don't want to see any closer; and that's the one place we're trying to get to! And that's just where we can't get, nohow.

I'm not sure what it is that I want, but I feel it deep in the pit of my stomach. It's there sitting dormant. I'll know it when I see it.

Fine. If I can't have you, then you do the taking. Have all of me, part of me, a small piece, whatever you want. Just please, have something.

more you drink more you want

My God! What is there in this place that a man should ever want to get into it?

That's exactly it—I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.

It was impossible not to admire him, not to want to do something to contain that kind of beauty- drink him, ingest him, sneak into his shirt and hide for the rest of one's natural life.

She would buy magic every day of the week. Love me, that face said. I'm so lonely, so desperate. I'll give you whatever you want.

Some days confidence shrinks to the size of a pea, and the backbone feels like a feather. We want to be somewhere else, and don't know where - want to be someone else and don't know who.

The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life.

Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.

What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home.

I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.

I've always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don't.

The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.

I gave you sympathy. *I* want sympathy!" "Are you kidding me? You have the sexiest man on the planet wanting you. You're getting laid regularly. No sympathy for you!

There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.

The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it.

And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.

Sometimes you sing songs about the way you want to feel more than the way you actually do feel.

You know when you get a crush on a person you don't know that much about them, you're sort of obsessed with them, you want to spend more time with them.