Quotes About Yearning

I'm getting soft! I need the sea! I miss its greens and blues and grays. Its singing whales. Its silent rays. Its shipwrecks resting on the sand. Undiscovered and unmanned Removed now from all history I miss the sea! Its mystery. Its kelp. Its creatures. Crabs and corals Devoid of complicating morals. Its secrets. All its saline riches. I'm going home.

He was alone in the world, and the world was Natalie. Usually

Although prey to the dictates of physical desire, he remained no less a romantic man, believing that the realm of women could be shrunk to one woman.

Elle veut que personne ne l'aime. Personne, sauf elle.

Por la tarde encendió el teléfono después de cada clase, pero seguía sin llegarle nada, ni la mínima respuesta; la misma agresividad en forma de ausencia.

Él quería ser como ellos, escapar de la dictadura del sentimiento.

Durant toutes ces années, les femmes se reposaient dans l'arrière-chambre de son excitation . Il les regardait, les admirait, mais ne les désirait pas. Enfin, soyons francs, quand Hector pensait ne pas désirer les femmes, il pensait surtout qu'il ne pouvait susciter le désir en elles.

He still felt just as light-headed, and a loop of the scene of the kiss kept playing in his head. It was already a cult film in his memory. Finally he opened the door to his apartment and found his living room much too small in comparison with his appetite for living.

It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.

We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?

We seek bridges from our isolation through people, possessions and accomplishment. But none of these are ever quite capable of satisfying the restlessness of the human heart. To be human is to have been designed for intimate relationship with the Divine.

Maurice liked this place. Even if there were no jewels, it was nice to dream about being rich. It was nice to dream about being well again. This was a place that invited dreams.

A cat came out of an alley, took a look at all the snow, and went back in. Farther on up the street a fat man, aproned and puffing, emerged from a restaurant and whiffed the cold air and gazed yearningly at the sky. As though even the dreams were up there, much too far away.

He craved Mildred's body and he couldn't do without it, and that was the one and only reason he went on living with her.

Some days i'm bursting at the seams With all my half remembered dreams And then it shoots me down again I feel the dampness as it creeps I hear you coughing in your sleep Beneath a broken window pane Tomorrow girl i'll buy you chips A lollipop to stain your lips And it'll all be right as rain This ain't no love that's guiding me

Want-- I want-- I want, we want to wake up, to wake out of it, to wake into the light, I want to dip, to bathe my everything in light--

I would almost plead for a pinprick of salvation, to pierce the burden, the damned skin of words wrapped around me.

Senti, forse ti cerco già da anni, ti cerco disordinatamente, a casaccio, e continuo a brancolare. Capisco che ti sto cercando da molto tempo come uno che cerca una finestra in una stanza piena di fumo.

Perchè il coraggio,secondo lei,è assecondare i desideri della propria anima

I know you'll think this is crazy, but all I want to do is hold you, and I think that if you'll let me do that just for a few seconds, I can walk away, and never speak to you again.

To die, he thought, was to escape passion's grasp, but that was the last thing he wanted. Instead he wished to be seized by passion and pinioned, held in its palm forever—he could not imagine any other existence as embracing any real happiness.

All day long, year in and year out, that Presence fills our mirror-deep minds, whispering all its silence through us, replacing meaning/thought with the elemental beauty of meaninglessness, the clarity of the ten thousand things.

That's the problem with memories; You can visit them, but you can't live in them.

If I had my life to live over again, I would find you sooner so that I could love you longer.