Quotes About Yearning

No woman has made me quiver before, but she does.

As we stay there, pressed against each other, the room smelling of coffee and sex, I hear him mutter . . . perhaps to himself, perhaps to me, "Last time, my ass.

Even with him in me I ache for him, and it's that aching that brings me rapidly to the brink.

How can I fight so hard for freedom only to be enticed by captivity?

I love the way you make me feel when you walk into the room, when you look at me.

Is it Rilla-my-Rilla?

If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature prompts us we can't go far wrong.

It was a terrible thing to undergo, but during the year I stood there I had time to think that the greatest loss I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth; but no one can love who has not a heart, and so I am resolved to ask Oz to give me one. - The Tin Woodsman, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz pgs 72-73.

Why does it have to be hard in life? I was waiting all through life for love. When I finally found it, it is far far away from where I am.

When I wake you're never there, but when I sleep you're everywhere.

I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.

We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing of the human soul.

You speak to me in riddles, you speak to me in rhymes, my body aches to breathe your breath, your word keeps me alive.

I was always trying to win the world, but somewhere I lost you.

I'd love to have a great relationship with my father. And unfortunately... I don't.

My mind is being consumed by you.My body is longing for you. Just one touch or a kiss, And I shall be satiated for a thousand years.

It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have a mum and dad who love and accept me for who I am. But if they never do, it's OK.

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

It's a bad religion to be in love with someone who could never love you.

I dreamt of worldly success once.

Heaven knows, it's not the way it could be.

I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.