Quotes About Yearning

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel.

But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Desire God, and you will have desires from God.

Memory is not what the heart desires.

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

Desire and longing are the whips of God.

For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.

Desire means never quit.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

Every desire has a relation to madness.

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.

Desire is proof of the availability.

Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Whoever desires is always poor.

I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind's knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, I've placed the eyeless head of all my desires.