Quotes About Yearning

Somewhere you are holding the person I love, the boy said. So, when I look out over your sands, I am also looking at her. I want to return to her, and I need your help so that I can turn myself into the wind.

love something I don't possess.

los días se le hacían demasiado largos porque solamente pasaba diez minutos con el amor de su vida, y miles de horas pensando en él.

In the words of a Persian sage: love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.

But my heart is agitated, It has its dreams, it gets emotional, and it's become passionate over a woman of the desert. It asks things of me, and it keeps me from sleeping many nights, when I'm thinking about her

I open the curtains in my office and see people out there, some walking and holding hands without having to worry about the consequences. And I can't show my love

I can't be in love with a man who lives in another world.

suddenly, for no reason, I get into the shower and burst into tears. I can cry there because no one can hear my sobs or ask me the question I hate most: "Are you all right?" Yes, why shouldn't I be? Is there anything wrong with my life? No, nothing. Only the nights that fill me with dread. The days I can't get excited about. The happy images from the past and the things that could have been but weren't. The desire for adventure never fulfilled.

It doesn't matter, he said to his sheep. I know other girls in other places. But in his heart he knew that it did matter. And he knew that shepherds, like seamen and like traveling salesmen, always found a town where there was someone who could make them forget the joys of carefree wandering.

How perverse! just when everything seems to be in order and as families gather round the table to have supper,the phantom of the superclass appears,selling impossible dreams:luxury,beauty,power.And the family falls apart

May my tears run just as far, that my love might never know that one day I cried for him.

Where have you been? is not an empty question. anyone asking it is also saying I missed you, I want to be with you,I need to know what you've been up to

El primer deseo es importante porque está escondido, prohibido, no permitido. No sabes si estás ante tu otra mitad perdida, ella tampoco lo sabe, pero algo te atrae, y es preciso creer que es verdad.

I'm losing the Love i have without having yet won the Love i hope to win.

We're surrounded by Universal Desire. It's not happiness; it's desire. And desires are never satisfied, because once they are, they cease to be desires

True love, a question for which there is no answer.

It's thrilling to fight for a love that's entirely unrequited.

And the boy sat there by the well for a long time, remembering that one day in Tarifa the levanter had brought to him the perfume of that woman, and realizing that he had loved her before he even knew she existed. He knew that his love for her would enable him to discover every treasure in the world.

Que mis lágrimas corran así bien lejos, para que mi amor nunca sepa que un día lloré por él.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

He had other fires and these flamed higher than Love.

les gens se sentent seuls quand ils rêvent .

It was strange how these poems came to him nowadays, the distillation of his private emotions, of his disillusionment, of his solitude, of his yearning for a future in which, nevertheless, he could not believe.

They stood, eyes meeting eyes, yet neither took the next step toward the other. "When I know what reward is great enough," she said, "then I will give it to you." "Because you live I am rewarded," he replied.