Quotes About Longing

Jack had been the love of her life and he was gone. It seemed now that there had never been bad times, though she knew that wasn't true.

I was moved by her emotion, but she was unable to say the one thing I longed to hear. She couldn't say, "Whatever you do, Mineko, please don't stop dancing." The system wouldn't allow it. When I stopped being a geiko I would have to stop dancing.

Well, these fifteen years may have seemed short to you but they have been an eternity for me.

At that moment, I couldn't have agreed with her more. I would have given anything to exchange my life for his.

What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.

He pulled away, but his eyes held my eyes like hands.

cineva care È™tie a iubi cu adev?rat poate experimenta voluptatea oricât de neînsemnat? ar fi atingerea trupului celuilalt. Îi explicasem atunci c?, pentru mine, posesiunea e mult mai neînÈ›eleas? È™i mai complicat? decât se pare. E foarte greu s? ai ceva cu adev?rat, s?-l capeÈ›i sau s?-l cucereÈ™ti. Mai mult ne închipuim c? posed?m decât posed?m.

Ce se intamplace in inima iubitei mele,ce gol ramasese acolo nestrabatut de patima mea si care o inghitea acum in intregime?

Am uitat de mult gustul atâtor trupuri pe care le-am cunoscut. Asta se întâmpl? aproape tuturor b?rbaÅ£ilor : s? n-aib? amintiri calde, s? nu mai p?streze nimic din toat? magia aceea a dragostei fizice

Et s'il y a eu des jouvencelles pour s'éprendre d'étoiles, pourquoi ne pourrais-tu pas, toi aussi, t'éprendre de moi?...

On the outside, there is all the coquettish pantomime; inside there is the desperate, longing woman.

It's impossible to move through the stages of grief when a person is both dead and alive, the way Min is. It's like she's living permanently in an airport terminal, moving from one departure lounge to another but never getting on a plane. Sometimes I tell myself that I'd do anything for Min. That I'd do whatever was necessary for her to be happy. Except that I'm not entirely sure what that would be.

For a few seconds I thought about my little brothers who loved connecting things with rope. I wondered if I'd ever see them again and a torpedo of sadness struck me and moved straight trough my body.

I stood there, like always, like forever it seemed, in the middle of the road waiting for something or someone to retrieve me, God or a parent or my husband or any of those things or people or ideas or words that by their definition promised love.

I sat on my Dad's bed and flipped through the page after empty page. No stamps. No exotic locales. No travel-worn smudges or creases. Just the ID information and my mother's black and white photo which if it where used in a psychology textbook on the meaning of facial expressions would be labelled: Obscenely, heartbreakingly hopeful

True love, I said. And yet I'm sticking around unreasonably and knowing it's impossible because who knows? I want to find out. I live hopefully.

I want her face to feel at home on an ancient coin, he said. I want her eyes to harm me.

ÄŒEŽNJA DogaÄ'a se to u jesenjoj no?i kada pada kestenje po asfaltu i kada se ?uju psi u daljini, i kada se tako neopisivo javlja ?ežnja za nekim tko bi bio dobar, naÅ¡, bliz, intiman, drug, i kome bi mogli da piÅ¡emo pismo. Ispovjedili bismo mu sve Å¡to leži na nama. Pismo bi mu pisali, a njega nema.­ ­

We left the way one leaves a cherished but impossible love: our hearts heavy with regret but beating with great hope.

Having more does not keep you from wanting more.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads -none of us ever got enough of that. We all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of - unconditional love, unconditional attention. Most of us didn't get enough.

I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.