Quotes About Yearning

There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe.

You see in all my life I've never found what I couldn't resist, what I couldn't turn down. I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.

I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

Reality is fabricated out of desire.

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

I haven't had everything from life. I've had too much.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God. Behind all the hunger of our life is God. All desire is finally a desire for Him.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Do you wanna leave soon? No, I want enough time to be in love with everything... And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.

I'm just a dreamer I dream my life away i'm just a dreamer Who dreams of better days

Places that are empty of you are empty of life.

No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.

There are so many things I could say about you but none of them can describe you fully. You are the beauty I was waiting for. The love of my life of whom I dreamed day and night.

Even in this world where you're getting everything you need and having this nice life, there's still loneliness and longing and disconnection.

You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.

I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.

Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.

life is long between the desire and the spasm.

The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.

It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.

Desire is the motivating force behind all progress and advancement in science, art, industry and in all phases of life.

I have learned that my quenchless longing for life is, after all, unconsciously, a secret, unutterable yearning after God; for how can you conceive of life apart from Him?