Quotes About Yearning

they were missing each other so much that all topics seemed to lead back to their separation and loss.

she was yearning to be with her grandparents now.

If you were a wheel I'd follow your highway. If you were a raindrop I wish you'd fall my way. If you were a gypsy I'd give a fortune to tell That whenever I'm with you I see HEAVEN, not hell…

Lloyd felt as though he had just lost the woman he loved more than everyone else on earth

Da mi basia mille. (Give me a thousand kisses)

In the heir's world, where everything was available, the unattainable had a wild allure.

The tips of his fingers glistened with the lamb grease from my cheek. I brought them to my lips and licked them, slowly, one by one.

What did they want from him, these people? The girl's face was scrunched up like she had some kind of ague. Anyone think she was the one been sold away from her home and kin.

He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn't have. He is everything I needed and couldn't find in real life. Of course he is. That's why I invented him.

Like everything perfect, he set up a ferocious pain inside me -- a flickering, griping sort of pain, because nothing as marvelous as that is ever within reach, is it? Nothing as beautiful can ever last.

That night, that yearOf now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God.

NOT, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.

Ik sta op de rand der wereld en roep: 'Waar zijt Gij?' De echo antwoordt: 'Zijt gij? Gij?

Ik heb intussen het 3e Hoofdstuk voltooid, vol verguldsel, paars licht, Eeeuwig onvervulde liefdesverlangens, Jongens op bromfietsen, motregen en met oude canapé kleden behangen grotten. Het leven is veel groter dan ik het ooit zou kunnen beschrijven. En God is gek op me.

Daar, in dat meubelloze, ondanks de gezinsgrootte lege kamertje, temidden van de stapel naar verschaalde terpentijn riekende kerstbomen, ervoer ik voor het eerst in volle hevigheid de verlatenheid, die de onmiddellijke nabijheid van een in stomme aanbidding vereerd maar voor altijd onbereikbaar wezen inhoudt.

She filled herself entirely with the molten dark.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

You attract what you need like a lover

He was in love with me. Or rather, he yearned to be me. Which is, perhaps, the most instantaneous and absolute characteristic of love.

Amami, per Dio. Ho bisogno d'amore, amore, amore, fuoco, entusiasmo, vita

L'uomo è infelice perchè è incontentabile.

Io non ho bisogno di stima, né di gloria, né di altre cose simili; ma ho bisogno d'amore.

My thoughts are drowned, and shipwreck seems sweet to me in this sea.

divertirli quanto più si potesse dal conversare col proprio animo, o almeno col desiderio di quella loro incognita e vana felicità.