Quotes About Yearning

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step along the way will be determined by it.

Barrons had just given me the most carnal, sexually charged hungry look I'd ever seen in my life, and I was pretty sure he didn't even know he had done it.

But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than myself?

I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.

Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?

I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved.

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire.

He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.

Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.

Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.

Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes

Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.

Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken.

I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax.

I wish I wasn't a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived on lilies.

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

We can't tell our life from our wish

Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?

To have and to want more that is life.