Quotes About Yearning

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

Who breathe where you will, come into me and snatch me up to yourself.

I'd love to be part Apache Indian. But I'm from Bristol. No Apaches there mate.

Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention.

All I can say is sometimes home gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can't leave you, and there's always that longing.

I'm always a sucker for a love story.

It sucks when you can't play the game you love.

I took a break after 'Confessions.' I was real picky. And then I suddenly realized I hadn't worked in a year. And I was sort of, like, not really happy. I think people are happier when they have structure, you know? You realize that as you get older. You have to have rituals and structure.

At the heart of all romanticism is suffering.

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

There are people who are destined to embrace endless pain and suffering, and there are people who desire to dream. Everybody dreams, of course. But does anybody desperately want to dream more than the people of North Korea?

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

I always feel like sugar cubes aren't big enough.

Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more we want it.

I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.

I'd go with our dad to watch our brothers play Sunday League. When I heard all the shouts, the reaction of the crowd, I wanted it to be about me.

It is true that there comes a time when I do literally dream about McDonald's. I dream of supermarkets and drug stores, potato chips and the Sunday morning paper.

And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough.

weren't you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place to keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside you going and coming and often staying all night.)…

Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair. [Songs of Longing]

In the night, I wish to speak with the angel to find out if she recognizes my eyes, if she will ask me: do you see Eden? And I'll reply: Eden burns.

Because I never held you close, I hold you forever.

O shooting star that fell into my eyes and through my body-: not to forget you. To endure.