Quotes About Yearning

Seems like nothing ever brings you back to reality that makes you want to stay there.

Ah, the things we would do if we could — especially in the secure knowledge that we can't.

It's sad when two people who could never part without a kiss come to the point where they never part and so never kiss.

There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them.

It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past.

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

O Lyric Love, half angel and half bird,And all a wonder and a wild desire.

Only I discernInfinite passion, and the painOf finite hearts that yearn.

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity.

The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its best to vex the lake: I listened with heart fit to break. When glided in Porphyria; straight She shut the cold out and the storm, And kneeled and made the cheerless grate Blaze up and all the cottage warm;

O Mary, at thy window be!It is the wish'd, the trysted hour.

O whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad:Tho' father and mither and a' should gae mad.

While we sit bousin, at the nappy, And gettin fou and unco happy, We think na on the lang Scots miles, The mosses, waters, slaps, and stiles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.

[Desire] is a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.

[Desire is] a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin [Saint Augustine], still going round as in a ring.

This is the monstrosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite, and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit. —William Shakespeare

When you've lived in a cage, you can't bear not to run, even if what you're running towards is an illusion.

Lenin had managed to communicate to people who yearned for socialist revolution without seriously expecting it a feeling that such a revolution was a real possibility, and in doing this he was ministering to their deep-seated need for confidence in their own commitment.

They want to touch God.

H]e dreamed things for which he had no words.

no es la posesión sino el deseo lo que impulsa en secreto a la gente.

La gente está cada vez más aislada, y ansía experiencias colectivas. Permite que tu ferviente y contagiosa fe, en prácticamente todo, le dé algo en qué creer.

Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

Aseguraba que me sorprendería la encantadora muchacha por la que había perdido corazón, mente, alma, razón, talento para cocinar y casi todo lo demás.