Richard Matheson Quotes

I want whatever part of you I can have.

All we really want in life is to connect to other human beings, and when you desperately want to connect physically to one specific human being and you can't? That's something I find compelling.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Everyone yearns for love, and everyone struggles for love.

You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?

All I ever wanted Was to know that you were dreaming.

You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled upon by the lonely feelings that I have mentioned as having once got the better of me.

It happens just because we need to want and to be wanted too, when love is here or gone to lie down in the darkness and listen to the warm.

She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull them to you by the sheer force of your desire, a force so strong it felt as though you were going to die from it.

What love is depends on where you are in relation to it. Secure in it, it can feel as mundane and necessary as air - you exist within it, almost unnoticing. Deprived of it, it can feel like an obsession; all consuming - a physical pain.

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

I believe in feeling connected. Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds. But there is a great feeling that happens, that is telling you, I don't want to leave this room!

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

I always wanted to be loved.

Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.

You’ve got me feeling like you’re that something I’ve been missing.

Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat.

O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted.

I touch her cheek to slow the kiss down, holding her mouth on mine so I can feel every place where our lips touch and every place where they pull away. I savor the air we share in the second afterwards and the slip of her nose across mine. I think of something to say, but it is too intimate, so I swallow it. A moment later I decide I don't care. "I wish we were alone," I say as I back out of the cell. She smiles. "I almost always wish that.

All I want is moonlight, with you there inside of me, all night, doing it again and again. You know I want you so bad.

Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again. - "The Bridges of Madison County"

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

When I see ya baby girl, I miss feelin on ya. I miss everything that's real about ya and that's everything about ya, that's just how I feel about ya