Quotes About Yearning

Thad slowly sat upright, his limbs quivery. He'd never been a whimsical man, but in that moment he felt as though someone had pushed him over the edge of a cliff and he was soaring in the clouds. In that moment, he lost his heart to Miss Sadie Wagner. And he had no idea how to snatch it back.

From now on, the sound of my nights will be the sound of her abscence.

He thought how much he liked her and had in common with her, and how much she'd like and have in common with him if she only knew him.

I love when you stand close to me. I can feel your breath fall against my neck and it sends chills and fire all over my body. (Jack)

I'm not allowed to walk topside, nor can I walk below deck. What could possibly be left for me to do? Oh, I know. Die from boredom! (Serenity)

Don't touch me, Nora. (Ewan) Why? (Nora) If you touch me, I'll kiss you, and if I kiss you right now, I'm not sure I'll have the strength to pull back and be satisfied with just the taste of your lips. (Ewan)

He felt his body stirring again at the memory of what she had been like under him. Rowena's eyes widened as she noticed it herself. "Does it do that a lot?" He shook his head and pulled her closer to him. "Only when I think of you." -Rowena & Stryder

Men were never easy, especially not when you loved one. As her mother had told her on her wedding night, the first two years of marriage a wife will want to devour her husband. After that, she'll wish she had.

Year by year, his life wasn't amounting to anything at all...And yet, another part of him had expanded: his self-consciousness, his self-pity -- oh, the tediousness of it...Shouldn't he return to a life where he might slice his own importance, to where he might relinquish this overrated control over his own destiny and perhaps be subtracted from its determination altogether? He might even experience that greatest luxury of not noticing himself at all.

beyond anything the INS could imagine, it was an old-fashioned romance.

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?

Could fulfillment be felt as deeply as loss.

This way of leaving your family for work had condemned them over several generations to have their hearts always in other places, their minds thinking about people elsewhere; they could never be in a single existence at one time. How wonderful it was going to be to have things otherwise.

But there was still something missing. Something that nagged at her-an emptiness she couldn't explain. There were mornings she woke with her heart pounding wildly and the sensation of arms wrapped around her. But the feeling slipped away the moment she opened her eyes, and no matter how quickly she squeezed them shut, she couldn't recapture the contentment she'd felt.

Kiss me again. Let me imagine for a moment that you belong to me. The memory will keep me company in my solitude.

I kept my arms around Joi and my face buried deep in her hair while I waited for Peter Pan to slip through the window. I thought I needed him to tell me what I should do. But he never showed up. He left me alone with a girl who smelled of jasmine and cocoa butter. And before I fell asleep, I finally realized that was more than enough.

Joi..." "Shut up," she says as she unbuttons my shirt. "I didn't bring you here for a heart-to-heart. How do I get this thing off without hurting you?

Hell, she knows why you chew your nails, why your eyes are blue one day, black the next. And all you want to do then is curl yourself with her, snug like a worm, lay your pumping head down in her lap. Have her caress you, be kind. No words because both of you are bodies, wrapping and unwrapping, there's eloquence in your embracings. Eyes closed, you realize everything you've ever wanted to say is right there.

Osaka: Ah always wanted to go to the ocean and rifd a dolphin. Sakaki: ...That would be nice. Osaka: Ah know, right? (Osaka and Sakaki stare at the ocean lost in thought; Sakaki imagining riding a dolphin). Yomi: Look at you two space cadets. What's going on? Osaka: We was thinkin' 'bout 'Roids. Sakaki: Eh... No... =,o

ach, gebt mir meinen Tod, damit ich bleibe

and what was left was only man calling to Almighty God, aching to feel another human heart beating next to his own, so that together they could defy the eternal emptiness

I love three things, I then say. I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth. And which do you love best? The dream.

The other one he loved like a slave, like a madman and like a beggar. Why? Ask the dust on the road and the falling leaves, ask the mysterious God of life; for no one knows such things. She gave him nothing, no nothing did she give him and yet he thanked her. She said: Give me your peace and your reason! And he was only sorry she did not ask for his life.

Loneliness was an unsatisfied thirst for illusion.