yearning for emotional connection Quotes

I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.

Love can wait to give; it is lust that can't wait to get.

But loneliness, true loneliness, is impossible to accustom oneself to, and while I was still young I thought of my situation as somehow temporary, and did not stop hoping and imagining that I would meet someone and fall in love...Yes, there was a time before I closed myself off to others.

But it was hard to keep his hands still. He could almost feel them twitching emphatically with his strong desire to reach out and stroke the dog's head. He had such a terrible yearning to love something again, and the dog was such a beautiful ugly dog.

You deserve to need me, not to have me.

For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.

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

I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.