Quotes About Yearning

Night can't cloak your scarlet dream. Accept Desire's call.

The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.

This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.

Angst is not the human condition, it's the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can't get.

Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul.

She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.

A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

Boredom is desire seeking desire.

Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.

All men desire to be immortal.

Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.

He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.

There is no limit to desire but desire's needs.

Your readiest desire is your path to joy... even if it destroys you.

Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.

The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.

I believe there is something on this earth that you desire more than anything, and it isn't me.