Quotes About Yearning

Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

To die of yearning for something you will never experience

To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls.

somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near

Pleasure was a siren, luring her to experience more

In my experience what I'm hearing from people now is that they're just desperate to hear about something else.

Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.

It is easy to despise what you cannot get

We are born with a lingering hunger We are born to be unsatisfied We are strangers who can't help but wander And dream about the other side.

Desire toward God and you will have desires from God and He will meet you on the line of those desires when you reach out in simple faith.

Your heart is like an infinitely large hole, and only God is big enough to fill it.

Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it.

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.

I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship

You're all I need and maybe some faith would do me good.

I envy my dad and his faith. I envy all people who have someone to beseech, who know where they're going, who sleep under the fluffy white comforter of belief.

I think everybody's looking for religion to believe in. I think we all need faith.

Even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where art came in, after that.

The country in which I live is not my native country that lies elsewhere and it must always be the center of my longings.

When you check the price tag of a shirt, and then sadly walk away...

My eyes hurt from crying, my heart hurts from trying. I look so tired & worn out because inside I'm dying. I miss you, I need you, but I'm better off without you. Days will have to drag on longer, but eventually I will stop thinking about you. I wish I knew. I feel broken & unwanted, like it was easy for you to let me go. I trusted you with everything, I let my feelings show. Someday I hope I can look back at this & say I was strong. But only I know I'm not...

Tell me the words I never said, show me the tears you never shed. Give me the touch, that one you promised to be mine, or has it vanished for all time