Quotes About Yearning

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

expectation isn't the same as desire

Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.

We are disgusted by the things that we desire, and we desire what disgusts us.

I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more.

I dream of vague shapes that hint of my heart's desire.

When I try to portray to myself my heart's desire, nothing happens.

Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.

In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.

He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast.

We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow.

If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire

In the end one loves one's desire and not what is desired.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

That we may not fall short of desire, but let us give way to the unspoken passion hidden in the closet of our discretion. ("Crépuscule du désir")

We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.

Desires stay unaware of man's fragile existence authored by scarcity

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.

Trapped in infernoIt blazed brighter than the sunHis desire for her

While a man desires a woman, His mind is boundAs closely as a calf to its mother.As you would pluck an autumn lily, Pluck the arrow of desire.

I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted?

Desire should be allowed to roam freely. The range is endless .

All desire, Tracy had had occasion since to think, is to some degree monstrous.

...Refusing to feel desire is the only thing more painful than failing to get what you want, and that learning not to yearn, far from preventing disappointment, ultimately guarantees it.