Quotes About Yearn

He was a man built to yearn for what he could not have.

I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.

I confided again that I wanted him, I wanted him to share my loneliness. I wanted him to share all that I could teach and give. Oh, the pain of it! All that I could teach and give.

When we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true desires—what we would have when that which we do have so sorely disappoints us

And you have never given me your love.

I wanted my house, my children, Amadeo, Bianca. I wanted my Venice. I wanted my mortal world.

Luego, estando yo a punto de dormirme, la así con fuerza por la muñeca. —Ni se te ocurra marcharte de aquí sin decirme nada —le dije. —Átame a las columnas y entonces no podré irme —me susurró al oído.

You have everyone else at your feet, Miss Lydia. Why should you need me as well? For a moment she couldn't speak, mesmerized by the torment she saw in the dark depths of his eyes. Because you're the one I want, she said in a hushed voice.

What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn't us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue.

I lay in my bed and tried not to miss him, to miss the entire experience of him. I wanted to feel the shape of him beside me. I wanted him to touch my hair. To kiss me, long and velvety slow.

Personally, I wish D. would come after me, I need a good dance partner. My Daimons have lame legs. (Acheron)

No, but it's what I need to know the answer to. (Sin) Yes, Sin. I missed you. I've mourned for you. I've hated you. I've wanted to sic Simi on you with barbecue sauce and I've done nothing but think about how much I just want to hold you…and yes, I've missed every part of you, from that annoying little sound you make when you're irritated to the way you hold me when we sleep. Now are you happy? (Kat) I'm delirious. (Sin)

You need anything else... You to touch me like I matter...

I want my fluff-fluff! (Bob) Fluff-fluff… (Zarek looked panicked.) (Zarek)

Megeara wants to find it. (Arik) And people in hell want ice water. The entire history of mankind is written by people wanting something they can't have. (Kat)

I'm scared I'm going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.

But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?

Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?

Life would be so much easier if fictional boys were real.

I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second.

In her heart she longed for this man, dreamed of a life that could never be.

Speak to me, Rosa. Look this way just once, over here Rosa, where I am watching.

He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world!

I keep breaking things - appointments and porcelain, thinking of your lips...