Quotes About Yearning

Never in my nearly eighty years of life on earth had I experienced a greater or more bitter contrast between happiness (the happiness I felt even glimpsing that exalted tent, from such a great distance) and sadness (I was not within the tent, and even a few seconds without seemed a dreadful eternity).

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.

No greater desire exists than a wounded person's need for another wound.

Deneyin bizi al?p götürdüÄŸü yere götürmesini istedim.

je saisis en sombrant que la seule verité de l'homme, enfin entrevue, est d'être une supplication sans réponse.

Entirety exists within me as exuberance … in empty longing … in … the desire to burn with desire.

I approach poetry: but only to miss it.

No great desire exists than a wounded person's need for another wound.

Quelque chose se cassait, quelque chose s'est cassé. Tu ne te sens plus - comment dire? - soutenu : quelque chose qui, qui, te semblait-il, te semble-t-il, t'as jusqu'alors réconforté, t'a tenu chaud au coeur, le sentiment de ton existence, de ton importance presque, l'impression d'adhérer, de baigner dans le monde, se met à te faire défaut.

It is distance that creates nostalgia.

Più io sono goffo avvicinandomi a lei e più, ne sono sicuro, lei è contenta. È il mio turbamento che osserva piuttosto di pensare al suo piacere, quell'attimo in cui per un miracolo che si riproduce alcuni milioni di volte al giorno, un corpo di donna diventa per un uomo la sola cosa importante al mondo.

Is it not unsupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?

I wish you did return my regard, he said. More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!

I do not want a boy. I only want Monseigneur!

With Philip's departure had come a void which only could be filled by Philip's return.

I cannot bear to go back alone - to the world I have lived in with you.

He took her face between his hands, turning it up, and looking down at her for a moment before he kissed her. I do love you, Jenny, he said gently. Very much indeed-- you are part of my life. Julia was never that-only a boy's impractical dream.

I could never fancy any other female. Never shall! That's why you see me now, a lonely man, with no one to care for, and no one to care a straw for me!' As he presented the appearance of a comfortable hedonist, Kit was bereft of words.

I could manage him,' she sighed. 'Oh, but I could!

is my very ardent desire to be permitted to pay my addresses to you

Similarly, grace seeks us but will not control us. Saint Augustine once said that God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them. If our hands are full, they are full of the things to which we are addicted. And not only our hands, but also our hearts, minds, and attention are clogged with addiction. Our addictions fill up the spaces within us, spaces where grace might flow.

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most human beings live only for the gratification of it. ARISTOTLE

Like everything perfect, he set up a ferocious pain inside me -- a flickering, gripping sort of pain, because nothing as marvelous as that is ever within reach, is it? Nothing as beautiful can ever last.

The absence of someone comes like a new season, first only in pieces: you see the absence in them long before they leave.