Quotes About Yearning

vulnerability equals weakness, and weakness arouses contempt. I had only to hide my longing and my desire, and they would be fulfilled. Or at least they'd have a chance.

How terribly unfair that his whole self aches because of the shape of a shoulder, the soft line of a hip.

The way to be gay is to make other people gay," Miss Lonelyhearts said. "Sleep with me and I'll be one gay dog.

My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.

I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.

Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.

Sometimes...I just want to run away from it all

Because you are like that sky. Because I feel it so much that it breaks my heart…I love you.

The wish of peeking at women showering is also a kind of romance.

When did I start feeling like my name had a special ring to it whenever you called out to me? When did I start doing dumb stuff over and over again, as long as I knew it would make you smile. When did I start...loving you so much I couldn't stand it?

I do want to be with him. Not being able to...breaks my heart. It breaks my heart.

I wanted people to notice me...but at the same time, I wanted to be left alone.

I can't. Stop...don't go anywhere...don't leave me.

Give them back! Give my tears back, right now——with interest!!

I want to go home.' The moment the smell hit her, the words came into her head. She didn't know exactly what home it was she wanted to go to, certainly not the one she'd just left. But why didn't she want to go back there? And where did she want to go? She felt lost.

Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in water, we are clearly not at home in time--because we belong to eternity.

I just want to not be me.

I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?

But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart's Desire.

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?

Don't you understand brother? I want to find a love...that will free me from this love...

this was a thing you keep up on in high school, girls you secretly like but can't get at 'cause they're dating somebody, maybe a friend, and so you file 'em away and hope the guy joins the army and gets sent to laos or something…

Spiritual yearnings are natural to many people, and may give them solace or hope, but extremists of any stripe are not content with faith as armor; they must forge it into a sword.