Quotes about Longing

He drew her very tenderly close and their lips met like starved hearts.

Almost painfully he took his eyes from her.

Cloaked by the erotic darkness she exhausted the future quickly, with all the eventualities that might lead up to a kiss, but with the kiss itself as blurred as a kiss in pictures.

He wanted a world that was like walking through rain

They made no love that day, but when he left her outside the sad door on the Zurichsee and she turned and looked at him he knew her problem was one they had together for good now.

Gloria was sure she wanted but to read and dream and be fed tomato sandwiches and lemonades by some angelic servant still in a shadowy hinterland. Between paragraphs Anthony would come and kiss her as she lay indolently in the hammock….

Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!" —Thomas Parke D'invilliers

I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.

He left feeling that if he had searched harder, he might have found her — that he was leaving her behind.

Well, there I was, 'way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care.

Then the door opened and she came into the room - and it was as though everything in it suddenly blurred before his eyes. He had not remembered how beautiful she was, and he felt his face grow pale and his voice diminish to a poor sigh in his throat.

She looks at him once more, with infinite longing, infinite sadness.