Quotes about Yearning

She had a right to his arm, though it was without feeling. He would give her, who was so simple, so impulsive, only twenty-four, without friends in England, who had left Italy for his sake, a piece of bone.

Why did he sit so near and keep his eye on her? Why did they not have done with this searching and agony? Why did they not kiss each other simply? She wished to kiss him. But all the time she went on spinning out words.

We saw for a moment laid out among us the body of the complete human being whom we have failed to be, but at the same time, cannot forget.

It is only that I want to be with you and not with anybody else - but you would get bored if I go on saying this, only it comes back and back till it drips of my pen.

I went away, dear Agnes, loving you. I stayed away, loving you. I returned home, loving you!

I cannot rest, I cannot stay, I cannot linger anywhere.

Yet the room was all in all to me, Estella being in it.

So Edith's mother lies unmentioned of her dear friends, who are deaf to the waves that are hoarse with repetition of their mystery, and blind to the dust that is piled upon the shore, and to the white arms that are beckoning, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away. But all goes on, as it was wont, upon the margin of the unknown sea; and Edith standing there alone, and listening to its waves, has dank weed cast up at her feet, to strew her path in life withal.

Barkis suspira.

Barkis suspira.

Christianity to me is like a hopeless love affair. It is infinitely dear and infinitely unattainable.

Passion gives you what you want, lust gives you what you desire, but only love gives you what you need.