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Quotes About Yearning

The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.
~ Henry Rollins
Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold onto something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it's so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn't come back. You're left so alone that you can't explain.
~ Henry Rollins
I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic storms, a century sealed in a cave, a river of molten salt flowing down my throat. But never with you.
~ Henry Rollins
I know you'll never love me but maybe you'll stay for awhile.
~ Henry Rollins
I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.
~ Henry Rollins
Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.
~ Henry Rollins
It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted.
~ Henry Rollins
Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.
~ Henry Rollins
No magic. I do believe you might have taken it all with you when you went away.
~ Henry Rollins
Damn, I was lonely that autumn. I wished for a girl I could hang out with. I never really did anything to meet girls, too shy, too fucked up. Autumn makes me think of women.
~ Henry Rollins
perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.
~ Henry Rollins
I think to myself: I don't want to survive this one I want to burn up in the wreckage
~ Henry Rollins
I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.
~ Henry Rollins
Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness. When I see you, the room swallows me. I find myself at the bottom of the pool.
~ Henry Rollins
You try to find a special person Someone you can be with Someone you can touch Someone you can talk to Someone you won't feel so strange around You found that they don't really exist
~ Henry Rollins
Will I ever meet someone That will take the bitter taste from my mouth? I am loneliness I wish I had someone to miss
~ Henry Rollins
I wish I wasn't alive as much as you are dead
~ Henry Rollins
Have you ever experienced something so great That years later you regretted the whole thing Seeing the hole it left in you?
~ Henry Rollins
It is you who are the basket cases. For every moment you hated your job, cursed your wife and sold yourself to a dream that you didn't even conceive. For the times your soul screamed yes and you said no. For all of that. Your self torture.
~ Henry Rollins
look at the phone thinking about calling out there There's no one to call Just voices Other worlds Sometimes I feel so thrown down So used up and vacant That I have to let time pass me by
~ Henry Rollins
If I could I would melt into your arms I would fall like ten dead languages I would not front I would not lie to you I don't think I could lie anymore I have grown too old for such youthful pursuits I want to love someone before I die Hurry It won't be long now
~ Henry Rollins
There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.
~ Henry Rollins
Do you ever feel the need to go somewhere Forget everything so you can remember yourself? You get a good way down the road and then the phone rings Not tonight A night for nights Dried blood by the bus stop A car patching out in the parking lot of the market Where the hell could I go? No, I'm plugged in Hooked
~ Henry Rollins
They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.
~ Henry Rollins