Quotes About Longing

I think of you so incessantly, so insistently. The thought of you is always there. It lies hidden, a latency, in the most unlikely things and places, ready at the command of some chance association to jump out at me from its ambush.

It is finished. Old Mitsima's words repeated themselves in his mind. Finished, finished....In silence and from a long way off, but violently. desperately, hopelessly, he had loved Kiakimé. And now it was finished. He was sixteen.

The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to't with a more riotous appetite.

I want to know what passion is, she heard him saying. I want to feel something strongly.

I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.

Words expressing desire may be more moving than the presence of the desired person.

Has any of you been compelled to live through a long time-interval between the consciousness of a desire and its fulfillment?

He remembered those weeks of timid indecision, during which he had looked and longed and despaired of ever having the courage to ask her. Dared he face the risk of being humiliated by a contemptuous refusal? But if she were to say yes, what rapture!

he was breathing Lenina's perfume, filling his lungs with her essential being. His heart beat wildly; for a moment he was almost faint.

Don't think of him. I can't help it. Take soma then. I do. Well, go on. But in the intervals I still like him. I shall always like him.

I want to know what passion is,' he said. 'I want to feel something strongly. We are all grown-up intellectually and during working hours,' he went on, 'but we are infants where feeling and desire are concerned.

Lenina'y? hem arzuluyor hem de bu arzudan utan?yordu. Lenina'ya lây?k deÄŸildi... Bir an gözleri buluÅŸtu, ne hazineler vaat ediyordu gözleri! Paha biçilmez hazineler.[...] Bir an gelir de kendini Lenina'ya lây?k hisseder diye belli belirsiz bir korkuya kap?ld?.

Has any of you been compelled to live through a long time-interval between the consciousness of a desire and its fufilment?

Los sentimientos proliferan en el intervalo que media entre el deseo y su realización

La mayoría de los hombres y las mujeres llevan vidas tan penosas en el peor de los casos y tan monótonas, pobres y limitadas en el mejor, que el afán de escapar, el ansia de trascender de sí mismo aunque sólo sea por breves momentos es, y ha sido siempre, uno de los principales apetitos del alma.

Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of

El afán de trascender del autoconsciente es, como he dicho, un principal apetito del alma.

I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

This is the Night wherein I'm lost, the Love through which I am no longer

It seemed to her as if her body were altogether too heavy for her; she had the feeling so well known to opium- smokers, which they call clou'e 'a terre. It is as if the body clung desperately to the earth, by its own weight, and yet in the same way as a tired child nestles to its mother's breast. In this sensation there is a perfect lassitude mingled with a perfect longing. It may be that it is the counterpart of the freedom of the soul of which it is the herald and companion.

Love death therefore, and long eagerly for it. Die Daily.

Cuando decía «abuela» no era una palabra recitada, era un grito que le venía de dentro y desde lejos.

Hay algo que se desea más que una primera noche pasada junto a una amante: una segunda