Quotes About Longing

To meet so briefly, then to lose you to the desert!' Rising swiftly, she walked to the doors opening to a veranda where she stood gazing at something beyond his vision. 'I hate it. I fear it. It is like the ocean. It takes men and devours them, then flows onward as if they had never been.

When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a shock to the system to be desired after feeling so completely abandoned.

You want more?" she asked a bit breathlessly. "Even after what we did?" His mouth took on a sardonic twist. "I'm afraid quantity usually matters for me . . ." --THE PRINCESS'S ASSASSINS

My toes are going to come," -Mariann The Night Owl

Ha voglia di telefonare a Tanja, a Madrid, dove lei vive con il suo marchese spagnolo. Eduard ha il numero nell'agenda, ogni tanto si sentono, ma che cosa potrebbe dirle? "Sono qui sotto. Sono venuto a prenderti. Aprimi"? Questo dovrebbe dire, ma è troppo tardi, tutto il resto è un balbettio sentimentale.

historia que ha ardido algunos meses y se ha hundido en el tedio mezquino de una región de la que sueñan con huir pero que no abandonarán nunca.

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

In a strange way', she thought, 'these absences suit my nature though not my heart. I love him, I miss him, but I have time to put on my humanity again.

There is nothing so difficult to remember as sexual love. How often, where, and what happened? It all goes, it has all gone, leaving no impression, mattering so much less than we like to think. (…) What we have had we have had, and, pleased, we pass along. (But what we haven't had may well be a ticklish business!)

Ambition was a dull pain, like a continually broken heart.

Siempre he soñado con besar a la mujer amada a la luz de la luna -prosigió él con la imbecilidad astronómica propia de tantos enamorados

Conocía demasiado bien la soledad. Y ahora sería más cruda que antes, pues tendría clavado como un aguijón el recuerdo de la dicha fugaz que había conocido.

When one spends a long time alone in the Frankfurt airport, one goes crazy at receiving even the tiniest crumbs of affection.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you have was once among the things you only hoped for.

I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic.

Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner.

All men and all women have their secret gardens, whose gates they guard against the profane invasion of the vulgar crowd. These are visual pictures of what they would do if they could do as they pleased. The lucky ones find the right time, place, and person, and get to do it, while the rest must wander wistfully outside their own walls.

I love the excesses of beauty, there is never enough sunlight in the world I will live in, never enough room for love.

There was a blur that flashed past her knees and then Priscilla stood, looking down the road, watching the dog go steadily at a lope as if it knew it had a long, long way to go. So she lifted her hand. "Goodbye, Lassie," she said, softly. "Goodbye and – good luck!

I don't ever want another dog. Never! I only want Lassie!

but the air's flat and stale and the people half-hearted. There's nothing to do there. You can make love without trouble or meaning, or get mildly drunk, or extract second-hand emotions from the cinema, or put your mind to sleep on a dance-floor, or play bridge, or throw yourself in front of a train on the Underground. There are forty ways of escaping from consciousness. But I want something more exciting than that.