Quotes About Yearning

You enhance your chances for success when you understand that your yearning power is more important than your earning power

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

This thing that haunts you, that never seems satisfied, the cravings in your soul that you are unable to satiate through all the success that the world can bring this is your soul screaming for God.

There are few qualities more vital than a strong yearning. That desire to reach a little farther, to be a little more, yearning...for a piece of something greater, can often make all the difference.

What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.

When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life's morning.

Dove troverete, ditemi, un amore simile al mio, un amore che né il tempo, né la lontananza, né la disperazione possono spegnere; un amore che si accontenta di un nastro smarrito, di uno sguardo perduto, di una parola sfuggita?

d'Artagnan wished to stop the young woman, seize her and gaze upon her, were it only for a minute; but quick as a bird she glided between his hands, and when he wished to speak to her, her finger placed upon her mouth, with a little imperative gesture full of grace, reminded him that he was under the command of a power which he must blindly obey, and which forbade him even to make the slightest complaint.

EÈ™ti cu mult mai presus decât dragostea mea ca s? îndr?znesc s?-È›i vorbesc, È™i totuÈ™i de câte ori te v?d simt nevoia s?-È›i spun c? te ador, fiindc? atunci când nu te mai v?d, ecoul propriilor mele cuvinte îmi alin? inima.

It is no use, said the old man, there is no wine. What, no wine? said Dantes, turning pale, and looking alternately at the hollow cheeks of the old man and the empty cupboards.

Now, to follow out this reasoning, what is the marvellous?—that which we do not understand. What is it that we really desire?—that which we cannot obtain.

One easily believes what one desires.

Monte Cristo raised his eyes heavenwards but could not see the heavens: there was a veil of stone between him and the firmament.

Il est vrai que sa voix, comme malgré elle, murmurait tout bas: «Edmond, Edmond, Edmond!»

Chaque homme a sa passion qui le mord au fond du coeur, comme chaque fruit son ver.

Con voi, mio caro conte, non si vive, si sogna.

Oh, Mercédès, I have uttered your name with the sigh of melancholy, with the groan of sorrow, with the last effort of despair; I have uttered it when frozen with cold, crouched on the straw in my dungeon; I have uttered it, consumed with heat, rolling on the stone floor of my prison.

Åži totuÅŸi, cei doi tineri nu-ÅŸi m?rturisiser? niciodat? c? se iubesc. Crescuser? unul lâng? altul ca doi arbori care-ÅŸi amestec? r?d?cinile sub p?mânt, crengile în aer ÅŸi mireasma în v?zduh; doar dorinÈ›a lor de a se vedea era aceeaÅŸi; dorinÈ›a aceasta devenise o nevoie, ÅŸi mai curând ar fi înÈ›eles s? moar? decât s? se despart? m?car pentru o singur? zi.

Mi se p?rea c? m? strânge de mân? È™i c? inima este gata s? sar? din piept, "Da, tu eÈ™ti f?cut? pentru mine, n?scut? pentru mine!..." ?i eu nu È™tiam cum s? în?buÈ™ aceste cuvinte care erau gata s?-mi zboare de pe buze!

Un ceas de când te-am p?r?sit, e un veac de când nu È›i-am mai spus: Te iubesc.

d'Artgnan felt his heart gripped by the sweet spasm that tortures and caresses the hearts of lovers. It was the first time a woman had ever given him a rendezvous.

ambicionava voltar a ver em mim DESEJOS sobejamente intensos para submeter à realidade.

Não conheço outra verdade senão a dos meus desejos.

Sixty years is too brief a compass for man's imagination. The incomplete joys of this world can never satisfy his heart.