Quotes About Yearning

There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.

We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life.

This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

Sometimes it seems to me that that's all my life has been, a series of things that I loved deeply that I could never have.

It's like my whole life never happened, When I see you, it's as if I never had a thought. I know this dream, it might be crazy, But it's the only one I've got.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

I'm amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach.

I think I just have a problem generally in life of wanting more of everything - more emotion, more drama, more glitz.

There are moments when it's too quiet. Particularly late at night or early in the mornings. That's when you know there's something lacking in your life. You just know.

Everything you want in life has teeth.

Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.

If I could find a real life place to make me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name.

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.

All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it.

If at last thou attain the desire of thy life, Cast the world aside, yea, abandon it!

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.