Quotes About Yearning

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

Lord help my poor soul.

Few love what they may have.

It is not customary to love what one has.

My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it'd created the only type of guy I could touch - a fantasy one.

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.

In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.

I don't think all people yearn for freedom, actually. I think they yearn for stability.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.

The freedom of birds is an insult to me.

Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.

Turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you.

The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.

We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.

It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

If I had a box just for wishes and dreams that had never come true, the box would be empty, except for the memory of how they were answered by you.

If I had a dog I would not feel so lonely, but I suppose that is asking for too much.

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.