Quotes About Yearning

It should have been enough. He should have been content to stay home without venturing out into the world looking for speed and excitement. Outside in the hall Ralph heard

Life, in short, just wants to be.

One of Milton's poems contains the well-known line "Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.

People want everything. That's their problem.

I suppose because I grew up a thousand miles from the sea and missed the great age of passenger liners, I have always been subject to a romantic longing for ocean travel.

velleity, which describes a mild desire, a wish or urge too slight to lead to action.

Because you and you alone I can't block out, no matter how hard I try - and believe me, I've tried. I know where you are every second of every day. I know if you're having good or bad dreams while you sleep.

Eres la mujer a la que no puedo ignorar

Yet the one I think of most often_¨

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage.

I wanted more than life could ever grant

As the world continues to find new ways to tear itself apart, humans still love, hate, feel rejected and yarn to be close to someone.

You would not seek me if you did not possess me.

What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words by God himself.

Man is full of wants; he loves only those who can satisfy them all.

Why wait any longer for the one you love When he's standing in front of you

Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting If I could hear his heart softly pounding Yes, and only if he was lying by me Would I lie in my bed once again.

everyone is making love or else expecting rain

It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing leaf -anything that might lead me into some more lit place, some unknown land downriver. I had not even the vaguest notion of the broken world I was living in, what society could do with you.

But it grieves my heart, love, To see you tryin' to be a part of A world that just don't exist. It's all just a dream, babe, A vacuum, a scheme, babe, That sucks you into feelin' like this. I can see that your head Has been twisted and fed By worthless foam from the mouth. I can tell you are torn Between stayin' and returnin' On back to the South. From To Ramona

It's like my whole life never happened, When I see you, it's as if I never had a thought. I know this dream, it might be crazy, But it's the only one I've got.

I will beg, will take to my knees, will listen to snow stroking air, a sky of gasps, will open my mouth, swallow, somewhere else the sky is falling, somewhere else it gets back up.

When I don't touch you it's a mistake in any life, in each place and forever.

When I don't touch you it's a mistake in any life, in each place and forever. — Bob Hicok from, "Other Lives and Dimensions and Finally a Love Poem," Plus Shipping . (BOA Editions Ltd.; 1st ed edition October 1, 1998)