Quotes About Yearning

You're the complication I want more than anything else. You're my favorite complication. No matter what sort of holes you poke in my trust.

You have a crush, I think." "Do I?" Locke had a vague idea of what that word meant, and somehow it didn't seem right. It didn't seem enough. "It's not meant to belittle your feelings, lad. A crush can come on hot and sharp like an illness.

Can a body love something so much that her heart aches with the loving?

All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.

No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.

On a ship that's made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you.)

If endless love was a dream, then it was a dream we all shared...

Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.

After a week, it's better. I miss her. I mourn her. But some peace has returned. She had been so unattainable - so young, so much a citizen of a different era - that it is hard to feel fully deprived.

Give us redemptive discontent until our hearts rest again in you.

Don't let me wander far. When I lose sight of Jesus, make the gall more galling, make the bitterness more bitter, make downcast feel even more downcast. I don't want to ever get used to feeling disconnected from the gospel.

It all came back to me last night, stirredBy the sootfall of your things at bedtime,Your head-down, tail-up hunt in a bottom drawerFor the black plunge-line nightdress.

Once off the bush The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot. Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not. -Blackberry picking

When I was little, I asked God if I could meet my mom just one more time, and my prayer was answered in 2001. It was weird.

One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.

I'd like to live in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles all at the same time.

...even saying good-bye isn't enough. There's always one more thing you should have had the time to say, or do, or ask. There's always going to be that one missing piece.

I kept looking for happiness, and then I realized: This is it. It's a moment, and it comes, and it goes, and it'll come back again. I yearn for things, but at the same time I'm just peaceful.

Time and time again I can't please myself.

Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.

Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

The things most worth wanting are not available everywhere all the time.

I think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we had more time and we're afraid of death."