Quotes About Yearning

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.

Swing me in the upas boughs, Vampyre-fanned, when I carouse

Man runs about restless and in pain when his condition or the objects about him do not fully match his thought.

Once you have drunk from the water of unconditional love, no other well can satisfy your thirst. The pangs of separation may become so intense that seeking the affection of the Beloved becomes an obsession.

She had lost her heart the moment she set eyes on him: it was this prince she had always dreamed of and waited for. She knew him from long ago, from countless lives before. They had belonged together since time began.

There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else. C. S. Lewis

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." —C. S. Lewis

Atheism is an empty cup crying out to be filled, while religion is an empty cup appearing to be filled.

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My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing.

You needed your whole self; and so you went and broke yourself, out of its grip, in pieces,painfully, because your need was great.

You who never arrived in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from the start. I don't even know what songs would please you. I have given up trying to recognize you in the surging wave of the next moment.

I wake up and tear drops, they fall down like rain. I put on that old song we danced to and then, I head off to my job cause not much has changed. Punch the clock, head for home, check the phone. Just in case. Go to bed, dream of you. That's what I am doing these days.

here it was the whole world wrapped inside my arms And I let it all slip away

Oare nu este interesant cum poveÈ™tile, mai noi sau mai vechi, ajung mai devreme sau mai târziu s? vorbeasc? despre ce înseamn? s? iubeÈ™ti È™i s? fii iubit? Ele mediteaz? asupra acestei nevoi vitale pe care o simÈ›im toÈ›i pe parcursul vieÈ›ii noastre. Ne dorim cu ardoare s? È™tim È™i s? simÈ›im c? suntem iubiÈ›i. Tânjim dup? relaÈ›ii semnificative pentru noi, sigure È™i tot mai profunde.

We hunger for pleasure that goes beyond the physical because ultimately we are spiritual beings.

Our souls yearn for a wonder that reaches beyond the dimensions of our finite minds, and if we don't allow a wonder toward God, we'll search for it elsewhere, in false gods. . . .The older you get, the more it takes to fill your heart with wonder. . .and only God is big enough to do that.

Augustine said, "You [Lord God] have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.

We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

That's life for you, said MacDunn. Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.

He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He recognized this as the true state of affairs. He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.

That's life for you, said McDunn. Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.

No, said a voice, the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.