And the pine trees that smell so wonderfully of spicy power. Shall I never see a mountain pine again? Really that would be no misfortune. To forgo something: that also has its fragrance and its power.
Success is transient. Failure makes us diligent. But yearning to succeed is constant.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yearn
I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.
I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps outLooking, with its hooks, for something to love.
My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.
There was old sex in the room and loneliness, and expectation, of something without a shape or name. I remember that yearning, and was never the same as the hands that were on us there and then, in th...
There are few qualities more vital than a strong yearning. That desire to reach a little farther, to be a little more, yearning...for a piece of something greater, can often make all the difference.
my heart, sometimes singing in the afternoon, the most haunting song of solitude
Yet she resigned herself: reverently she put away in the chest of drawers her beautiful dress and even her satin shoes, whose soles had been yellowed by the slippery wax of the dance floor. Her heart...
To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!
Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?
The day we stop yearning, is the day we stop learning.
He: I have this crazy yearning in my heart, to make you mine.She: Sure, go ahead and make me your bad habit!
At the core of her senseless actions, she vaguely perceived that she yearned for something. A something that would provide her with a sure sense of fulfillment. But she could not fathom what that some...
And then I feel as if I'm witnessing a miracle, as ever so slowly she raises her face towards the moon. I watch her drink in the sight, sensing the flood of memories she's unleashed and wanting nothin...
Why is love intensified by absence?
In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing i...
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