Quotes About Longing

Te he visto, monada, y ya eres mía, por más que esperes a quien quieras y aunque nunca vuelva a verte, pensé. Eres mía y todo París es mío y yo soy de este cuaderno y de este lápiz.

Kiss me just once more before we get there

I wanted it so much,' she said. 'I don't know why I wanted it so much. I wanted that poor kitty. It isn't any fun to be a poor kitty out in the rain.

I lay awake thinking and my mind jumping around. Then I couldn't keep away from it, and I started to think about Brett and my mind stopped jumping around and started to go in sort of smooth waves. Then all of a sudden I started to cry. (27)

Ta?iau nakt? pabudo ir apkabino j? stipriai, tartum ji b?t? buvusi visas jo gyvenimas; visas gyvenimas, kurio jis netenka. Laik? j? gl?by jausdamas, jog ji - visas jo gyvenimas; o taip ir buvo iš ties?. Ta?iau ji miegojo kietai ir nepabudo.

Onde iremos viver depois da guerra? - Provavelmente num asilo de velhos - disse ela. - Durante três anos esperei infantilmente que a guerra acabasse no Natal. Mas agora não espero já o fim dela senão para quando o nosso filho for major. ------ Henry e Catherine in O Adeus Às Armas, Ernest Hemingway

While we may never find or receive the love from others that our hearts are desperate for, we can receive a love even greater than that of which we were deprived.

When I kiss her I am kissing 1903.

Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. —Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Sometimes they come sheepishly; sometimes they arrive desperate, dejected, enraged. They don't just miss sex, the act; they miss the feeling of connection, playfulness, and renewal that sex allows them. I invite you to join me in my conversations with these questers as we work toward opening up and coming a step closer to transcendence.

In uncertainty lies the seed of wanting.

It's hard to experience desire when you're weighted down by concern.

If intimacy grows through repetition and familiarity, eroticism is numbed by repetition. It thrives on the mysterious, the novel, and the unexpected. Love is about having; desire is about wanting. An expression of longing, desire requires ongoing elusiveness. It is less concerned with where it has already been than passionate about where it can still go. But too often, as couples settle into the comforts of love, they cease to fan the flame of desire. They forget that fire needs air.

The romantics refuse a life without passion; they

Getting what we want undermines the thrill of wanting it.

fidelity and loyalty, desire and longing, jealousy and possessiveness, truth-telling and forgiveness. I encourage you to question yourself, to speak the unspoken, and to be unafraid to challenge sexual and emotional correctness.

Love arises from within ourselves as an imaginative act, a creative synthesis that aims to fulfill our deepest longings, our oldest dreams, that allows us both to renew and transform ourselves." Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who we are.

Affairs are an act of betrayal and they are also an expression of longing and loss.

I have met plenty of men who were the lovers of married women (or married men, for that matter). But I have yet to meet a man who was single and gave his love to another man's wife for thirty years, hoping that she would leave and come and make a family with him.

Oscar Wilde wrote, "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is getting what one wants, and the other is not getting it." When our desires are unfulfilled, we

Your lustiness would be an open endorsement for her own ardor.

He was going to think about her and think about her until she disappeared.

It is want that does the world's arousing, and if it were not for that, who knows what might not be interrupted?

My heart's like a wounded beast, clawing me in its death-throes . . . My stomach's a bottomless pit, my mouth a funnel of fire. Hunger and thirst, hunger and thirst . . .