Quotes About Yearning

I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.

Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.

..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

Loneliness has been following me my whole life.

We all want to be loved, don't we? Everyone looks for a way of finding love. It's a constant search for affection in every walk of life.

There is nothing on earth that can satisfy our deepest longing. We long to see God. The leaves of life are rustling with the rumor that we will - and we won't be satisfied until we do.

If you've ever been hungry, you can never be full.

What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

If there is not at least a yearning in our hearts to live a holy life pleasing to God, we need to seriously question whether our faith in Christ is genuine.

It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

A woman who is starved for her real soul-life may look 'cleaned up and combed' on the outside, but on the inside she is filled with dozens of pleading hands and empty mouths.

...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.

The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.

The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.

True life is elsewhere

If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.

The only thing I'm afraid of is a life without you, Pigeon.