Quotes About Yearning

She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.

I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.

Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one.

And I, what is my crime I cannot tell, Unless it be a crime to haue lou'd too well.

Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?

I wanted to bring Lissa back, and I wanted to return to Adrian's arms again, return to his lips and all this life... "Hathaway! Good God, do I have to hose you down?

Life is like a great jazz riff. You sense the end the very moment you were wanting it to go on forever.

Somehow, being with Brittany brings something to my life that's missing, something ... right.

I didn't want the life that made sense. Not if the chaos meant i could have Bella.

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in? That village, that city, that life? We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?

Were all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all.

Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.

Life would be so much easier if fictional boys were real.

How much better my life has been for knowing him. For loving him, even if it's only in the limited way that I can manage. But I never get the chance.

The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that's not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.

I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.

The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.

I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second.

I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.

You do in your art what you cannot do in your life.

In her heart she longed for this man, dreamed of a life that could never be.

He would not give her up,he could not.For the first time in his life he'd found someone who filled all the empty spaces in his heart

Her absence in my life was so painful that it was a presence.

All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.