Quotes About Yearning

Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back.

Life's aim, if it has one, is to be always looking for temptations - and there are not nearly enough of them, I find. I sometimes pass the whole day without coming across a single one. It makes one so nervous about the future.

I beg you, eat me up. Want me down to the marrow.

When you went away, you left me nothing but the sun-bleached world. You did not even leave me a heart to bleed with. I found I was standing there with no body, and so no voice for calling you.

sometimes I wait for you at the exact edge of the jetty where we left each other. Sometimes I disappear into an unconscious hole and lie there silted up in stories having nothing to do with the vigorous immediacy of our epic.

I never said to you: come back. Each time that you left forever, I lowered my head and looked at your left hand, I looked at the white carpet in front of the divan on which we were sitting, I didn't say the word, there is no circumstance, then I raised my eyes and looked out the window at the world that was moving away with the solemn slow pace of an ocean liner

I, too, overflow; my desires have invented new desires, my body knows unheard-of songs

I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

After that first crowded day I retired to one of those green-tiled sanctuaries and lathered myself with a new bar of a famous toilet soap which Helen had put in my bag. I have never been able to use that soap since. Scents are too evocative and the merest whiff jerks me back to that first night away from my wife, and to the feeling I had then. It was a dull, empty ache which never really went away.

My goodness, if you think of all the folks in the world who'd give all they've got to be out of the racket and in a place like this, only they can't get out! Are we in the prison or are they ?

Sometimes you have a desire for something beyond your deepest needs that reveals the things you want in life.

If only for a moment. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary person you loved.

I'm scared of losing and failing at loving someone so much as I can miss them.

My love is so strong and so pure. A passion so deep inside my heart, that I just Lose Control, When I Glance At You.

I wonder where it all begins. When I feel an emptiness in my soul.

Our souls don't want the heavens. It wants to love, and be loved.

If I could be your teddy bear for just one night, before you drifted of to sleep you'd hold me, oh, so tight. You'd tell me all about your dreams of finding someone to love and hold in your arms and drive away your fears. And as those words escaped your lips you'd gently fall asleep and not knowing it your teddy bear would weep. I'd cry because you would not know you'd found your love so true and then I'd whisper in your ear your teddy bear loves you.

If I could be your teddy bear for just one night, before you drifted of to sleep you'd hold me, oh, so tight. You'd tell me all about your dreams of finding someone to love and hold in your arms and drive away your fears. And as those words escaped your lips you'd gently fall asleep. And not knowing it your teddy bear would weep. I'd cry because you would not know you'd found your love so true and then I'd whisper in your ear your teddy bear loves you.

I remember, I felt that if you touched me, I'd die. And then I thought that if you didn't touch me, I'd die.

To crave and to have every part of you, every thought and word. Happens in a heartbeat, every time I think of you.

It is a longing of the soul, that makes your heart feel emptier, than wanting someone in it.

I remember when I felt that if you touched me, I'd die. And then I thought that if you didn't touch me, I'd die.

It is a longing of the soul, that makes our heart feel emptier, than wanting someone in it.

My heart only had one thought, one want, one need. Despite it all.. All my heart has ever wanted was you.