Quotes About Yearning

Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]

You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

We pursue that which retreats from us.

We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.

She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires

The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

We want more than there is.

Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.

I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You

It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

No one can have all he desires.

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

Hope is merely another face of desire.

I had a very strong desire to carry out adventures, but in those early days I didn't actually do any. I just dreamt about it.

I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.

Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. The heart that sighs does not have what it desires.

Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.

Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.

All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.

O, she is the antidote to desire.

Desire can be as fragile as it is sudden.