Quotes About Longing

Unrequited love is the foundation for fatal attraction.

There is so much I need, but you can't get it for me.

What do you want? The answer to that is both simple and very complicated. To sit down somewhere without worrying that he soon has to run off again. To talk to people who do not shun him. To smell the air exhaled by a woman. To eat the food she hands him and see the flutter of her hands as she talks. To go home.

Helen ran off with a lover only once in her life herself, and for three thousand years nobody would ever let her forget about it.

The trouble with instant gratification is, it takes too long.

This grown man who now phones his father to say, Motherfucker, I ain't seen pussy so long, I'd throw stones at it.

Nobody dreams of the things he already has.

You know how mice are—anything for a little affection.

Yeah, and piss is just like honey if you're hungry enough.

I'd wish then that I could afford to go to the ticket counter and buy a seat on the next plane back to where I'd come from.

Motherfucker, I ain't seen pussy in so long, I'd throw stones at it.

I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.

Solace is what we must look for when the mind cannot bear the pain, the loss or the suffering that eventually touches every life and every endeavour; when longing does not come to fruition in a form we can recognize, when people we know and love disappear, when hope must take a different form than the one we have shaped for it.

Rage swept over her at being young, young and little, as if some evil fairy had put that spell on her. Why must you be locked up in this dreadful cage of childhood for twenty or a hundred years? Nothing in life was possible unless you were old and rich, until then you were only small and futile before your tormentors, desperately waiting for the release that only years could bring.

She would like to be on a train named Nightfall going to some place where she'd be twenty-five years old.

All this is just a place, she said. And sometimes such a lonely one.

How passionately we love everything that cannot last...

In time, however, I came to understand that one can adore and desire that which is forever beyond reach. This might, in fact, be the hardest truth of human existence.

You're all the world to me. Whenever i can't see you... I die a little.

Omul care las? s?-i scape dragostea vie?ii sale va ajunge singur cu regretele sale ?i toate suspinele lumii nu-i pot aduce alinare sufletului.

But, drawn to her at that moment, he felt a quiet like the voice of the rain flow over him. He knew well enough that for her it was in fact no waste of effort, but somehow the final determination that it was had the effect of distilling and purifying the woman's existence.

A voice so beautiful it was almost lonely, calling out as if to someone who could not hear, on ship far away.

Love is my only lifeline.

As it became clear to Shimamura that he had from the start wanted only this woman, and that he had taken his usual roundabout way of saying so, he began to see himself as rather repulsive and the woman as all the more beautiful