Quotes About Longing

look, lust, and leave, knowing I could never have one of them for myself.

La añoranza es calculada mediante cifras también. Distancia multiplicada por el factor Amor.

The Consul felt a pang. Ah, to have a horse, and gallop away, singing, to someone you loved perhaps, into the heart of all the simplicity and peace in the world; was that not like the opportunity afforded man by life itself? Of course not. Still, just for a moment, it had seemed that it was.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

We do not always allow ourselves to work through pain. More often than not, we think pain is a signal that we must stop, rather than find its source. Our souls do not like stagnation. Our souls aspire toward growth, that is, toward remembering all that we have forgotten due to our trip to this place, the earth. In this context, a body in pain is a soul in longing.

But as a woman? I feel like dry goods on the shelf of a life put on hold. More than anything, I want to sink my teeth into it and taste all that I can." If only she could taste Urich, mmm, mmm. "Maybe even some forbidden fruit," she added with a wistful sigh.

He pulls the hood over my head. I try to pull back. I'm not trying to run away. I just want to see her... One last time...

A yawning hole deep inside me was begging to be filled up with words and thoughts and ideas and facts and fictions." Callum McGregor

I can't stop thinking about what might have been… I can't stop imagining the two of us together. My body burns at the thought of it. Sephy and I might've been together for ever." — Callum McGregor

Sometimes I wish there was just you and me and no one else in the whole world" - Callum

Sometimes I wish there was just you and me and no one else in the whole world.

Sephy, d'you ever dream of just … escaping? Hopping on the first boat or plane you come across and just letting it take you away.' There

I miss him. With every breath and every heartbeat, I miss him.

What future did the Jazter see for himself, exactly? Would his days of shikar continue indefinitely, or did he dare look beyond the beaches and the train stations and the alleys? Could he, in some part buried deep within, secretly crave conventionality? (Or was that too much of a heresy?)

What earth is this so in want of you they rise up on high to seek you in heaven? Look at them staring at you right before their eyes, unseeing, unseeing, blind.

Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.

Appoggiata alla mia spalla sei la mia ala destra. Come se tu spiegassi le tue tenere nere penne, m'innalzan le tue parole a un candidissimo cielo. Esultanza. Silenzio. Seduto ora al mio tavolo, mi sanguina la spalla, la tua assenza mi duole.

Porquinho-da-Índia Quando eu tinha seis anos Ganhei um porquinho-da-índia. Que dor de coração me dava Porque o bichinho só queria estar debaixo do fogão! Levava ele prá sala Pra os lugares mais bonitos mais limpinhos Ele não gostava: Queria era estar debaixo do fogão. Não fazia caso nenhum das minhas ternurinhas . . . — O meu porquinho-da-índia foi minha primeira namorada.

la nostalgia es la mayor de las penitencias que cumplen los hombres al paso de los años.

Dearest . . . I am writing you once more now, night . . . brings a silence that helps me talk to you, and I wonder . . . could you be remembering too, sad dreams . . . of this strange love affair. My dear . . . although life may never let us meet again, and we—because of fate—must always live apart . . . I swear, this heart of mine will be always yours . . . my thoughts, my whole life, forever yours . . . just as this pain . . . belongs . . . to you . . .

Es curioso que uno no pueda estar sin encariñarse con algo. Es como si la mente segregara sentimiento sin parar... -¿Vos creés? -... lo mismo que el estómago segrega jugo para digerir.

Todos los muertos vuelven si los llama el amante con la fuerza necesaria.

Es que todos los que han nacido para amar viven así como ella vivió?, ¿ahogando minuto a minuto lo más vital dentro de sí?

Y otra cosa: cada tarde te quiero más.