#yearn

The problem was that the only reality he could see what a nut-brown nymph who could whisper like a song and move like a river of honey. ↗

— Frank Lee Raw Honey

#yearning #love

Nondum amabam, et amare amabam ↗

— St. Augustine of Hippo

#loneliness #longing #love #yearning #love

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#yearning #dreams

The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#longing #pain #regret #yearning #consciousness

I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#yearning #hate

What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human. ↗

— Clarice Lispector

#being #desire #evolution #human #yearning

It’s like when you’re excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means you’re happy, too. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#yearning #madness

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#being #difficulty #doctor #get #horizontal

Name me no names for my disease, With uninforming breath; I tell you I am none of these, But homesick unto death —Homesick for hills that I had known, For brooks that I had crossed, ...Before I met this flesh and bone And followed and was lost… .And though they break my heart at last, Yet name no name of ills. Say only, "Here is where he passed, Seeking again those hills. ↗

— Witter Bynner

#melancholy #regret #yearning #death

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#capacity #directing #film #good #had