Quotes About Yearning

expression conveying to her, as male expressions would, the simple wish that he might connect with so pleasing a being, as if she were an angel with the power to remake a man's life, his sense of the past and of himself, as if a woman was something in which a man and his history, his pains, his failings, could reside.

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

One's only real life is the life one never leads.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

I am wearied to death with life. There's nothing it has that I want, but I celebrate my naked earth, there's no other world to descant.

I want you now so awfully, No longer jealous-green, I bring myself as offering Up to the guillotine.

A word does not suppress This dryness spreading through, Dense air is emptiness For me without you.

I am called to live in such a perfect relationship with God that my life produces a yearning for God in the lives of others, not admiration for myself. Thoughts

I am called to live in such a perfect relationship with God that my life produces a yearning for God in the lives of others, not admiration for myself. Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God.

Dejection stems from one of two sources—I have either satisfied a lust or I have not had it satisfied. In either case, dejection is the result. Lust means "I must have it at once.

Lord, the range of Thy power, the touch of Thy grace, the breathing of Thy Spirit, how I long for these to bring me face to face with Thee; Lord, by Thy grace cause me to appear before Thee.

I am called to live in such a perfect relationship with God that my life produces a yearning for God in the lives of others, not admiration for myself. Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God. God's purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.

O Lord, I would seek Thy face now, but what avail is my seeking if Thou revealest not Thyself? Show me Thy face, O Lord. Keep me ever seeing Thee.

Whoever cannot believe and yet longs for it, whoever knows how miserable the Enlightenment is and yet cannot get rid of it, also knows what hell is. To be banished knowingly into unbelief.

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

Your lot is mortal: not mortal is what you desire.

So I can't live either without you or with you.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.