Quotes About Yearning

Love makes hunters of us all.

She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.

How could anyone live without flying?

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.

I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover.

I worship talents almost. I sinfully dare mourn that I possess them not.

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?

Wishing of all employments is the worst.

I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

I miss out on tons of stuff.

One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.

It is too late; now I wish I could live.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

I don't get to spend too much time with my family.

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

It's one of the most basic laws of human nature, isn't it? The more we are denied something, the more we want it. The more silence given to this or that topic, the more power.

I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.

I want to get married, but I'm always tortured in relationships.

The face of evil is always the face of total need.