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Quotes About Yearning

How much did I hear of religion as a child? Very little, and yet my heart leaped when I heard the name of God. I do believe every soul has a tendency toward God.
~ Dorothy Day
Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
If it brings me to my knees, it's a bad religion
~ Frank Ocean
Dear Pope, send me some hope or a rope.
~ Lou Reed
I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.
~ Julianna Baggott, Pure
The way Kathy Lee needs Regis, that's the way I need Jesus.
~ Kanye West
All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry "Help!
~ William James
Dear God, you created us in your likeness, our hearts are uneasy until they find you - From the film Sophie Scholl
~ Sophie Scholl
1I smiled bitterly, a defeated man pitifully begging a God in whom he had never trusted.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
And of all the rooms in my childhood, God was the largestand most empty.
~ Li-Young Lee
You ask me, I'd guess heaven and hell look pretty much the same, " I replied. "Only in hell, everything is just a little out of reach.
~ Chris Holm, Dead Harvest
. . .the young man who rings the bell at the brothel is unconsciously looking for God.
~ Bruce Marshall
Oh! to be loved by a man I respect, To bask in the glow of his perfectly understandable neglect.
~ Frank Loesser
The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.
~ William Hazlitt
Don't forget I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.
~ Julia Roberts
I'M A HOPELESS ROMANTIC
~ Aaron Paul
With every breath, I'm deeper in you.
~ Madonna Ciccone
I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
~ Honore de Balzac
You live by the light of the moon, and I live by desire.
~ Stevie Nicks
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
All I've ever wanted was to be near you.
~ Shannon Hale, Enna Burning
My life has been awaiting you. Your footfall was my own heart's beat.
~ C.P. Cavafy
Return to me, for my heart wants you only. Hurry home, hurry home, won't you please hurry home to my heart.
~ Dean Martin