Quotes tagged ‘Yearning’

“You let nostalgia trick you, and you’ll regret it badly.”

— Hallie Lambert, Commander Klaes Ashford, David Strathairn, imdb.com

“Me, I can't help myself. I see an opportunity, I take it. It's a sickness. Truly.”

— Robert Levine, Jonathan E. Steinberg, John Silver, Luke Arnold, imdb.com

“Strange, the things you remember. Single images and feelings that stay with you down through the years. Like the moment I'd realized I'd never owned a vase. That I'd never lived in any place long enough to justify having such a simple thing. And how at that moment, I wanted nothing so much in all th…”

— Ronald D. Moore, Claire Randall, Caitriona Balfe, imdb.com

“King Edward: I cannot ride to battle like this. I have to have you, and if you will not be my mistress, then you must marry me. Elizabeth: Don't. King Edward: Marry me. It is the only way. I'm mad for you. Will you marry me?”

— Emma Frost, King Edward, Max Irons, imdb.com

“King Edward: I cannot sleep. I haven't slept since I last saw you. Elizabeth: Nor I. King Edward: Nor can I eat. Is it me? Elizabeth: Yes. King Edward: So, is this love then? Is this what it feels like?”

— Emma Frost, King Edward, Max Irons, imdb.com

“I just wanna open the bar and sing songs.”

— Ann Biderman, William Wheeler, Abby Donovan, Paula Malcomson, imdb.com

“...I'll be here just waiting and hoping for every long dream of you to come true.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“I once had a thousand desires, but in my one desire to know you, all else melted away.”

— Rumi, amazon.com

“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your f…”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

“...I live with you better than with anybody else.”

— Franz Kafka, amazon.com

“Don't get starry-eyed about somebody you can't have, especially if it blinds you to somebody who's really important.”

— Rick Riordan, amazon.com

“I have hunger for your mouth, for your voice, for your hair.”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

“Oh the bitten mouth, oh the kissed limbs, oh the hungering teeth, oh the entwined bodies. Oh the mad coupling of hope and force in which we merged and despaired.”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

“I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.”

— Betty Smith, amazon.com

“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it — to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.”

— André Breton, amazon.com

“Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.”

— Markus Zusak, amazon.com

“We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?”

— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com

“The Empath is often said to have such a great degree of empathy that they can literally feel what others feel, and thus intuitively know many of the yearnings, sensitivities, tastes and even thought patterns of the people they're around.”

— Aletheia Luna, amazon.com

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com