Quotes about Yearning

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)

I am happy in my prison of passion

Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

Most people'll run from their own mother to get to hug death by the neck. They cant wait to see him.

Most people'll run from their own mother to get to hug death by the neck. They cant wait to see him.

Your old man called me. He wanted you to call home. People in hell want ice water.

You can think of me as a faithless slut if you like. I've taken a new lover. He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes he is.

Forty minutes later he saw her and stopped and sat the horse and watched. She was riding along a red dirt ridge to the south sitting with her hands crossed on the pommel, looking toward the last of the sun, the horse slogging slowly through the loose sandy dirt, the red stain of it following them in the still air. That's my heart yonder, he told the horse. It always was.

What a man seeks is beauty, plain and simple. No other way to put it. The rustle of her clothes, her scent. The sweep of her hair across his naked stomach ( . . . ) That the man knows not how to even name that which enslaves him hardly lightens his burden.

What a man seeks is beauty, plain and simple. No other way to put it. The rustle of her clothes, her scent. The sweep of her hair across his naked stomach ( . . . ) That the man knows not how to even name that which enslaves him hardly lightens his burden.