Quotes About Yearning

Man desires, woman is desired.

Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.

None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.

A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.

Even though a man may be unable to attain such a height of sanctity, he ought to desire it, so as to do at least in desire what he cannot carry out in effect.

Inside me there is a fat man dying to get out.

What men yearn for they often destroy.

This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.

A man after God's own heart is... a man who yearns to please God, a man who desires to grow spiritually, a man who had a heart that obeys.

The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.

Once a week, I am a very desperate man.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

Always wanting another man than your own.

If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow.

Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.

Even now, sometimes on street corners... when I meet someone, I see your shadow. I'm sure that even now, you're still wearing that man's cologne... so you can sleep, even alone.

Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.

No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!

And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

He kissed me desperately, like a drowning man and I was his oxygen.

Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures are not yours.

A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read.

The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten.

Slowly, without taking his eyes from hers, the man in the black coat knelt before her. "I have come for the girl in the window," he said, and his eyes filled with tears