Quotes About Yearn

There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed.

you have neither wife nor child (without any sexual feeling, she longed to cherish that loneliness)...

It's on the field, it's on the pane, it's in the sky — beauty; and I can't get at it; I can't have it — I, she seemed to add, with that little clutch of the hand which was so characteristic, who adore it so passionately, would give the whole world to possess it!

I love and I hate. I desire one thing only.

I am in love,' he said, not to her however, but to someone raised up in the dark so that you could not touch her but must lay your garland down on the grass in the dark.

What he had really wanted to do was to tear a hole in his world and escape.

One last word, I said in my horrible English, are you quite, quite sure that--well, not tomorrow, of course, and not after tomorrow , but--well--some day, any day, you will not come live with me? I will create a new God and thank him with piercing cries, if you give me that microscopic hope. No, she said smiling, no. It would have made all the difference, said Humbert Humbert.

By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast.

Blue evenings in Berlin, the corner chestnut in flower, light-headedness, poverty, love, the tangerine tinge of premature shoplights, and an animal aching yearn for the still fresh reek of Russia...

for you never deigned to believe that I could, without any specific designs, ever crave to bury my face in your plaid skirt, my darling!

My mouth to him was a splendid cave full of priceless treasures, but I denied him entrance.

I knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from that concord.

are you quite, quite sure that—well, not tomorrow, of course, and not after tomorrow, but—well—some day, any day, you will not come to live with me? I will create a brand new God and thank him with piercing cries, if you give me that microscopic hope

Oh, Lolita, had you loved me thus!

I will create a brand new god and thank him with piercing cries, if you give me that microscopic hope.

Humbert era perfectamente capaz de tener relaciones con Eva, pero suspiraba por Lilith.

It's tempting, emptiness.

I was passionately parched; but she began to whimper in an unusually dreary way when I attempted to fondle her

I'll die if you touch me, I said. You are sure you are not coming with me? Is there no hope of your coming? Tell me only this. No, she said. No, honey, no. She had never called me honey before.

What he really wanted was to tear a hole in his world and escape.

What more do you want, Sia?" "I want you. Don't you see that?" Her cheek was warm where she pressed it against him. "Don't let me walk away like this. I want to feel your arms around me again. I need it, Trygg.

This need is something different. It's something deeper. Something she's not ready for. Maybe neither of us are ready to give in to what we both want from each other.

All you want is Love. And if you've wanted love so badly, why haven't you had it? Does not that say something about The Wanter, not his World?

Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have, Not universal love But to be loved alone.