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Quotes About Longing

Y luego esa falta de montañas que para un vasco, quieras que no, es mortal.
~ Fernando Aramburu
El corazón me dice que volverá. Y yo quiero que sepa que no he dejado de pensar en ella ni un segundo de mi vida. Prométeme que, si me muero, le darás tu los regalos
~ Fernando Aramburu
Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!
~ Fernando Pessoa
Esa polonesa fue una de las ilusiones de mi niñez, y al fin la dominé: como quien domina a su mujer al cabo de diez años. En amor y en música lo que no se da de una vez que no se dé.
~ Fernando Vallejo
He ahí el gran problema del amor que no sabe a donde va. va en su gratitud a la deriva. Y el hombre a la postre, siempre, pero siempre quiere llegar.
~ Fernando Vallejo
Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love.
~ Fiona Apple Maggart
My derring-do allows me to dance the rigadoon around you but by the time I'm close to you I lose my desideratum.
~ Fiona Apple Maggart
Rachel's kiss reached inside him and twined around what passed for his soul. and when she took her mouth from his, she had it all. He knew he loved her with everything he was. Everything that he could be. There would never be another woman for him. And he could never tell her.
~ Fiona Brand
The passionate fury in every line of her body made Cullen go still. The sudden vision of Rachel locked beneath him, her legs wrapped around his waist, that wild gaze linked passionately with his as he pushed himself inside her, flooded his loins with a throbbing, painful heat. A groan rolled through him, and he broke out in a sweat. Sweet hell He wanted her. Here. Now. And God help them both, but she wanted him, too.
~ Fiona Brand
When I dance, it's you I dance with. I think about you all the time. I don't understand, but I'm so tired with keeping it in.
~ Fiona Shaw
REVISITING THE LIST 1. Kiss Estelle Okay, at least I've met her. She thinks I'm a creep. And that's withought her knowing I've read her diaries. Unless we somehow fall over, exactly aligned, lip to lip, and gravity causes the pressure, or we find ourselves in a darkened room and through a series of Shakespearian ID muddles she thinks she's kissing someone else, I can't say how this is ever going to happen.
~ Fiona Wood
She is dancing. Away. From you now. She was just a wish. She was just. A. Wish. And her memory is all that is left for you now.
~ Fleetwood Mac
Like a heartbeat drives you mad In the stillness of remembering what you had And what you lost And what you had And what you lost
~ Fleetwood Mac
What are the girls thinking of? At least half are nostalgic for death, and for a temple, and for all of those clothes.
~ Fleur Jaeggy
I've found it hard sometimes to turn my back on the natural call of the waves, and I don't envy the temperament of vultures or of stars. The blinds at my windows have been fluttering for fifty years.
~ Fleur Jaeggy
Cuando se está allí dentro, una imagina cosas grandiosas sobre el mundo, y cuando sale, a veces desearía volver a oír el sonido de la campana.
~ Fleur Jaeggy
La vida para mí se hacía demasiado larga. La literatura, por sí sola, no me distraía.
~ Fleur Jaeggy
Ik laat de nabije zaken met liefde gaan om achteruit te rennen, naar al uitgedoofde tijden.
~ Fleur Jaeggy
I want somebody to love, and I want somebody to love me. And nobody ever will. And that's why it hurts. Because it makes a difference. And when nobody cares, it makes you all mad inside and it makes you want to say things, tear up things, break things, get through the glass.
~ Flora Rheta Schreiber
No, I be-ant expectin' nothin', but I be so yarnin
~ Flora Thompson
Lo extrañé mucho. Más que cualquier otra cosa de la que me haya visto obligado a desprenderme, lo que no es poco decir, y aún lo echo de menos ahora y siempre lo haré. Pero fue por una buena causa y en este mundo no podemos tener todo lo que queremos. No sería bueno para nosotros.
~ Flora Thompson
Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.
~ Florence King
prefiero morir en sus manos en una agonía lenta, a saber que nunca te tendré a mi lado, porque hasta que eso suceda, viviré dichosa contigo y no destrozada como lo estoy. Déjame elegir a mí mi propio destino.
~ Florencia Bonelli
Since that day when he had kissed her in the house on Avenue Elisée Reclus, he hadn't been able to get the sensation of touching her skin out of his head.
~ Florencia Bonelli