Quotes About Yearning

But what doesn't change is that love is something we all crave. Everyone is looking for that touch, that emotion, that feeling. Love makes the mundane matter.

I've tried everything but celibacy, and I really want to know what it feels like to be touched by someone with a mental touch and not a physical touch.

Whenever the hero and heroines met, they couldn't go beyond a point. They would just hold hands and consummation or kissing would be two flowers meeting or a bumblebee hovering over a flower. In 'Kaagaz Ke Phool,' even though their love was strong, the couple never touched.

At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration.

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.

I would trade everything I have to have had a happier childhood.

My first love, I'll never forget, and it's such a big part of who I am, and in so many ways, we could never be together, but that doesn't mean that it's not forever. Because it is forever.

I lift up my heart in gratitude for these beautiful yearly bridges that bind us together in love.

They managed to sleep together, but there wasn't enough for dreaming.

That's what seems the most sad to me—that neither of them even think there's a possibility they can be together.

Wes wants to be with Macy. And Macy, whether she'll admit it or not, wants to be with Wes. And yet they're not together, which is not only unjust, but when you think about it, tragical!

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.

Sailin' 'round the world in a dirty gondola Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.

What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home.

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.