Quotes About Yearning

qué más quisiera uno que irse sin conocer la vida!...

There's no sauce in the world like hunger.

The best sauce in the world is hunger.

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To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

to enjoy the flesh of one's own soul).

Comprar yo su cuerpo... su cuerpo...! ¡Si me sobra el mío, Orfeo, me sobra el mío! Lo que yo necesito es alma, alma, alma

And the secret of human life, the universal secret, the root secret from which all other secrets spring, is the longing for more life, the furious and insatiable desire to be everything else without ever ceasing to be ourselves, to take possession of the entire universe without letting the universe take possession of us and absorb us; it is the desire to be someone else without ceasing to be myself, and continue being myself at the same time I am someone else...

Eu, Diogo Ribera Flores, filho do campo e do sequeiro, herdeiro de sobreiros, azinheiras e oliveiras, alentejano por berço e condenação perpétua, deixei mulher e filhos, deixei mãe e irmão, deixei terra e Pátria, deixei esse ar espesso e opressivo de um Portugal amordaçado, para flutuar neste balão gigante sobre o mar e sobre a vida, esperando que no fim da viagem haja um Novo Mundo à minha espera.

the universe was not created to answer our needs. Frustration is deeply woven into the fabric of life. And whenever some of our needs are temporarily met, we immediately start wishing for more.

Kto urodziÅ' siÄ™ w Tebach, tÄ™skni? bÄ™dzie zawsze do Teb, gdy? nie ma na ziemi innego miasta podobnego do Teb. Kto urodziÅ' siÄ™ w ubogim zauÅ'ku, tÄ™skni? bÄ™dzie zawsze do tej uliczki, z paÅ'acu cedrowego tÄ™skni? bÄ™dzie do glinianej lepianki; od zapachów mirry i drogocennych olejków tÄ™skni? bÄ™dzie do woni ognisk z bydlÄ™cego nawozu i ryb sma?onych na oleju.

We will never be completely satisfied by our achievements, skills, wealth, fame, pleasures, or possessions. Why? Because the human heart was created to need more than what is available to us in the natural realm. Only the eternal, supernatural God can fill our longings.

Yahweh: You've been unhappy because you've desired things that cannot be. Lucifer: That's what desire IS. The need for what we can't have. The need for what's readily available is called greed.

is a mistake to market God as the answer to our insatiable desires when He was the one who made certain our desires were insatiable in the first place. God is relentless in His pursuit of humanity; He'll use anything and everything to bring

Pursuit is the proof of Love

She is cute as a button, pretty as a picture, eminently fuckable, totally unavailable.

Briana watched him for a moment and then looked back out her window. "You don't know what you're missing, Kyle.

In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the excitement of gypsy wanderlust

A solitary sail that risesWhite in the blue mist on the foam—What is it in far lands it prizes?What does it leave behind at home?

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say. The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.