Quotes About Yearning

Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.

The frost of loneliness makes me shiver.

When I am all alone, I often, very often, say your name aloud…

In the end one loves one's desire and not what is desired.

Woman wants to be taken and accepted as a possession, she wishes to be merged in the conceptions of possession and possessed; consequently she wants one who takes, who does not offer and give himself away

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties. Other men have the same yearning, even when power means visible disadvantages, the sacrifice of their happiness, and well-being; they are the ambitious. Other men, again, are only like dogs in a manger, and will have power only to prevent its falling into the hands of others on whom they would then be dependent.

Os homens de profunda tristeza denunciam-se quando são felizes: têm um modo de pegar na felicidade como se quisessem esmagá-la e sufocá-la, por ciúme - ah, sabem bem de mais que lhes foge!

This cup wants to become empty again, and Zarathustra wants to become human again.

And just look at these men: their eye saith it - they know nothing better on earth than to be with a woman. Filth is at the bottom of their souls; and alas! If their filth hath spirit in it!

Severim batmaktan baÅŸka bir yaÅŸam bilmeyenleri.

Man liebt zuletzt seine Begierde, und nicht das Begehrte.

Ich liebe die großen Verachtenden, weil sie die großen Verehrenden sind und Pfeile der Sehnsucht nach dem andern Ufer.

Lord, what romantical fools men were, to overpass the known and good in order to strain and stretch after the mysterious merely unknown. Were dreams simply better than reality? Had fancy always more style?

Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.

the sadness it feels in attaining any happiness less than the infinite—all these constitute the mating call of God to the soul.

One can yearn for another after knowing flesh unity, but it is impossible to yearn for another after soul unity.

The crisis in their souls begins at the moment when they either recognize that they have tremendous potentialities not yet exercised or begin to yearn for a religious life which will make greater demands on them. Up to that moment of crisis, they have lived on the surface of their souls. The tension deepens as they realize that, like a plant, they have roots which need greater spiritual depths and branches meant for communion with the heavens above.

He seeks us before we dream of seeking him; he knocks before we invite him in; he loves us before we respond.

Woe to you that are filled: for you shall hunger";

Posseït Sóc més lluny que estimar-te. Quan els cucs faran un sopar fred amb el meu cos trobaran un regust de tu. I ets tu que indecentment t'has estimat per mi fins al revolt: saciada de tu, ara t'excites, te me'n vas darrera d'un altre cos, i em refuses la pau. No sóc sinó la mà amb què tu palpeges.

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

I've remained a virgin for you.

Let me stay here, he said. There was soap.

I've been wanting to do this all night. Give me those luscious—" He ripped the front of her bodice open, freed her breasts, and buried his face between them. "Mmmm. God, I could devour you," he moaned as his hot, wet mouth captured her nipple. Bel gasped then let out a low, breathless laugh of delirious pleasure.