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Quotes About Yearning

Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.
~ Georges Bataille
Going without a thing enhances the desire to get it.
~ James Cook
Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.
~ Emma Goldman
The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
~ Heraclitus
Whatever you ardently and passionately desire, that you obtain.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Desire is an attempt to feel the void.
~ Hamza Yusuf
All roads are long which lead to one's heart's desire.
~ Joseph Conrad
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.
~ Upton Sinclair
A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
~ Jack London
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
~ Anne Carson
They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire.
~ Rumi
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
~ Tom Waits
I desire only Him and to be wholly His.
~ Brother Lawrence
Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.
~ Robert Hass
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
~ Stanley Kunitz
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
~ Gaston Bachelard
Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?
~ Neil Jordan
Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
~ Michelangelo