Quotes About Yearning

Sometimes when a man gets older he has a revelation and wants awfully bad to get back to the place where he left his life, but he can't get to that place- not often.

While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.

Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Only I sigh for thy repose.

I can't sing. Never been able to sing. I can't do voices very well. Every impression I do sounds the same. I can't dunk. Man, would I give anything to dunk. Just once.

There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.

I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.

I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.

There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.

it just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like that.

If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

Every man makes a god of his own desire

Ah woe is me, through all my daysWisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men's praise;But Love, ah! Love I have it not.

Every man's the same, he wants the sunshine in his name.

There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.

I just... want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.

The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.

She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else.

Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.