Quotes About Yearning

You have the choice to create the life your heart is yearning to live.

All my life I dreamed of having someone think I was beautiful.

Try to capture what you can't bear to be without

I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.

People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.

They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.

There are men I could spend eternity with. But not this life.

Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.

Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.

He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.

O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?

So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold.

What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.

As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life

...in the end, all I want is to be with him. It's the only way my life feels complete.

How had it turned into this? I had lived my whole stupid life without him, and now I could barely make it through the hour.

I'm aware of what's missing from my life.

He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.

Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.

I write because I want to have more than one life.

How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.