Quotes About Yearning

FOR THREE NIGHTS in a row, Dilly has dreamed of Gabriel, a look of yearning on his face, the clothes hanging off him, making no attempt to come to her and yet making his presence felt, standing on an empty road, like he was waiting. Three nights in a row. "It must mean that he's trying to reach you," Sister says. "It doesn't," Dilly answers

Their eyes meet and part, each staring into the forlorn space, a shaft of disappointment, he because he is unable to help her and she because she is thrown back into her own quagmire of uncertainty.

If I could feel like myself I'd thank God but I don't feel and never will.

You are never out of my mind. I feel the cold more than I used to and this house is big

Qué dices? Y dijo: —Que querría tener otra vida para vivirla contigo. Otra vida para vivirla conmigo. Eso querría. Eso dijo.

Why do I always have to want more?" he asked the river. And receiving no reply, he shook his head.

When I am in his company, I am so happy. I just want to be with him. That's all I know." She shrugged. "I want to be with him, all the time.

Unlike the riotous appetites of adolescence, his present cravings had a tragic tinge, they were cravings for the appetites, metacravings, wanting to want.

Patrick had a fervent desire to be left alone matched only by his fervent desire not to be left alone.

He had to have her, he definitely had to have her. She was not merely the latest object on which his greedy desire to be saved had fixed itself; no, she was the woman who was going to save him. The woman whose fine intelligence and deep sympathy and divine body, yes, whose divine body would successfully deflect his attention from the gloomy well shaft of his feelings and the contemplation of his past.

Why was the centre of his desire always in a place he had just deserted?

Oh Jesus, thought Patrick, let me out of here. He imagined himself disappearing through the floor with a shovel and some bunk-bed slats, the theme music of The Great Escape humming in the air. He was crawling under the crematorium through fragile tunnels, when he felt himself being dragged backwards by Annette's maddening voice.

For those we don't see For those who are not here.

If there is a heaven, it should be like all the places you love or the places you've never been but wish you'd visited while you were still alive. -Giselle

Her lips drink water but her heart drinks wine.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

Como eu gostaria de poder tirar fora, como o desdentado que tira a dentadura para depositá-la num copo d'água junto ao leito, tirar meu cérebro para fora de sua caixa, tirar meu coração que bate demais, esse pobre infeliz que cumpre bem demais seu dever, tirar fora meu cérebro e meu coração para mergulhá-los, esses dois pobres milionários, em soluções refrescantes, enquanto eu dormisse como um menininho que nunca mais voltarei a ser.

Mais qu'avons-nous tous, pauvres humains, à vouloir nous serrer contre un autre corps ?

The doubt sensation, also called the yearning sensation, the longing sensation, allows the mind to become more and more aroused without its resting on anything, to the point where pure awareness without content, reflection or desire can spring forth in a burst of light, an explosion of pure being.

No es mejor apagar en un amor fácil la sed del alma, que devora la tranquilidad del espíritu?

That thing over there was more there than it's there! Yes, sometimes I cry about the perfect body that doesn't exist. But the perfect body is the bodiest body there can be, And the rest are the dreams men have, The myopia of someone who doesn't look very much,

Estar a su lado (que creo es, justamente, donde deseo estar) equivale a estar aún más solo.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

I am I, and I wish I weren't.