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Quotes About Yearning

We all love being in heaven, but no one is ready to leave the world just yet.
~ Unknown
You are living for the sake of love and your life is not free from wanting more love or pleasure to yourself.
~ Unknown
You can desire something only if you wish to possess it in the end. Therefore, love is a possession!
~ Unknown
Three things I have longed to see," murmured Miss Cynthia, pointedly. "The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.
~ Myrtle Reed
Song of Longing Will you come to me now Thee white moon shines on the cornfields Evening falls among the melon rows The orange sun sets on the mountains The river runs sparkling on blue stones And the long reeds bend and sway I will welcome you with sweetgrass and sage Will you come to me now I sing in my heart of your coming I sing in my soul of your coming
~ N. Scott Momaday
But the voice goes on, calling us, beckoning us, luring us to think that there might be such a thing as justice, as the world being put to rights, even though we find it so elusive. We're like moths trying to fly to the moon. We all know there's something called justice, but we can't quite get to it.
~ N. T. Wright
La belleza apunta hacia afuera del mundo presente, a uno totalmente diferente.
~ N. T. Wright
But the voice goes on, calling us, beckoning us, luring us to think that there might be such a thing as justice, as the world being put to rights, even though we find it so elusive.
~ Unknown
But the voice goes on, calling us, beckoning us, luring us to think that there might be such a thing as justice, as the world being put to rights, even though we find it so elusive. We're like moths trying to fly to the moon. We all know there's something called justice, but we can't quite get to it.
~ Unknown
God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.
~ Unknown
Equality was not freedom, it had only been the mistaken yearning to become like the people of the town. And who wanted to become like the very ones feared and hated? Envy was not freedom.
~ Nadine Gordimer
But you, you've always been the rain, the wind, inside my mind. I taste you when I sleep, when I wake, when I breathe.
~ Nalini Singh
I want no blood from you--not until we're both sweaty and naked and you're screaming my name.
~ Nalini Singh
Damn, but I like making out with you Sienna. Let's do it again tomorrow." He left to the sound of a feminine snarl. It made his lips curve into a feral smile.
~ Nalini Singh
Make me forget." A whisper, a plea. Not giving her what she wanted wasn't even an option. He switched their positions so she was under him. "Aren't you afraid I'll take advantage?" She wiped away her tears. "Please do." "Ask nice." "Why don't I make you angry instead? That gets me kissed a lot.
~ Nalini Singh
If I were to splay you out on my desk and thrust my fingers into you right now, I think I'd find different.
~ Nalini Singh
Why are you sad, Dorian?" He couldn't lie to her. "The leopard wants you to see it.
~ Nalini Singh
I could kiss you forever," she murmured against his lips, sucking at the lower one, playing with the upper, his body weight a luscious pressure. "I love feeling you against me." "You say such things, Elena. You will make me your slave.
~ Nalini Singh
Death holds no allure for me, Elena." The power of him cut against his skin, a cold white fire. "Not when I have yet to sate my hunger for you.
~ Nalini Singh
She wished he'd stop touching her. Not because she didn't like it but because she liked it far too much. It made her hunger for things that could never be hers. And if someone went hungry for too long, they started to starve. Started to hurt.
~ Nalini Singh
Aren't you going to get up?" He put a hand on the curve of her hip, a possessive gesture that had already become familiar. "No. Let's have more sex.
~ Nalini Singh
You," she murmured, using both hands to undo his belt, "are the sexiest man I have ever met." He made her think bad thoughts simply by breathing.
~ Nalini Singh
Seven months Naasir had been hunting. Seven months since he'd told Ashwini he was ready to find a mate. Seven months and still his mate hadn't made herself known to him. Didn't she know he was looking for her?
~ Nalini Singh
I wish I'd been born in another time, another place. Then maybe I could've escaped fate… maybe I could've been your darling.
~ Nalini Singh