Quotes About Yearning

She could literally feel the heat of his body; they were inches apart. She inhaled deeply, his masculine scent mixed with dust and sweat. Heat tore down through her and she gazed up into those gray eyes that studied her in the building silence. He wanted her. The thought was shocking. What was more shocking and disconcerting to Shiloh was she wanted him!

You know nothing about me, Falco, she muttered in a low voice. I whipped back, more intensely than I meant, But oh my soul, I wanted to find out!

We try to get out of these cocoons and make our way down to where our bodies are. We try shoplifting and racist/sexist/ageist humor (trying to offend our way out); we get naked on stage. We try sleep deprivation and razors on our skin. We date creepy, scary sleazes who we half-hope, half-fear might do the cutting for us. But we're so used to living inside a dream, even cutting feels dreamy. We can't get out. We can't wake up.

They died, leaving behind the kind of void that is never filled, a relentless ache that follows an abandoned child throughout her entire life. And

She had this conversation with herself once a year. Generally, right about now, when the holidays were looming and people were talking excitedly about family gatherings, and she went home each night to an empty condo that seemed much emptier than it did in spring-filled May or hot, sunny August.

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

You are made in the image of what you desire.

The human heart by nature seeks after God. There is a spiritual vacuum in every man until it is filled by Christ.

Either give me more wine or leave me alone.

Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.

The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.

Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.

I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.

If the spiritual universe and the way to it were shown, No one would remain in this world for a single moment.

Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.

When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.

A person desperately searching for love," Merlin said, "reminds me of a fish desperately searching for water.

We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.

Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.

To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

People seek for the spiritual champagne, but they mistake what it is.

You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the agony of wishing in my heart !

Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for.