Quotes About Yearning
My second sentiment was a craving for love. I wanted every one to know me and to love me. I wanted to be able to utter my name — Nicola Irtenieff — and at once to see every one thunderstruck at it, and come crowding round me and thanking me for something or another, I hardly knew what.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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She was overcome by sweet sorrow, and tears were already rising to her eyes: then she suddenly asked herself to whom she was saying this? Again everything was shrouded in hard, dry perplexity, and again with a strained frown she peered towards the world where he was.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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does it ever happen to you to feel as if there were nothing more to come—nothing; that everything good is past? And to feel not exactly dull, but sad?
~ Leo Tolstoy
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He walked down, trying to avoid looking at her for too long, as if she were the sun, but like the sun, he could still see her even when he was not looking at her.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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With one burning hand she held his and with the other she kept pushing him away.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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He had said the very thing that her soul desired but that her reason feared.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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Hell is the inability to love.
~ Leon Tolstoy
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Suferin??, hr?ne?te-m?!
~ Leon Wieseltier
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Vrea s? muÈ™te din fructul amar, dar f?r? s?-i guste am?reala. S? lucrezi în lume, dar s? nu simÈ›i nici un fel de dragoste pentru lume.
~ Leon Wieseltier
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Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.
~ Leonard Cohen
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And you want to travel with herAnd you want to travel blindAnd you know that she will trust youFor you've touched her perfect body with your mind.
~ Leonard Cohen
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And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.
~ Leonard Cohen
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Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I'm not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
~ Leonard Cohen
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Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!
~ Leonard Cohen
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I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you was naked Ah, but some of you was light.
~ Leonard Cohen
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I heard of a man who says words so beautifully that if he only speaks their name women give themselves to him. If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips it is because I hear a man climb stairs and clear his throat outside our door.
~ Leonard Cohen
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you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent
~ Leonard Cohen
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I know she is coming I know she will look And that is the longing And this is the book.
~ Leonard Cohen
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The Dream" "O I had such a wonderful dream, she said. I dreamed you made love to me. At last, he said to himself, the spirit has taken up some of the heavy work.
~ Leonard Cohen
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Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach.
~ Leonard Cohen
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Fare thee well my nightingale I lived but to be near you Though you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you
~ Leonard Cohen
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You came to me this morning And you handled me like meat You'd have to be a man to know How good that feels, how sweet
~ Leonard Cohen
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I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I'm glad you stood in my way.
~ Leonard Cohen
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The Remote I often think about you when I'm lying alone in my room with my mouth open and the remote lost somewhere in the bed.
~ Leonard Cohen
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