Quotes About Yearning

But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.

Youth, ah, Youth! all men's desire and sorrow.

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

That they dared make a town of this wet and sucking thing that vied with my foot for my boot at every step bespoke the glorious and yearning bullshit of men's souls.

Here we are, a man and a woman, both wanting the same things, and yet, you aren't attracted to me.

To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man.

...his lips were pure temptation, soft, bitable, sensual in a way only a man's mouth could be.

She was sleeping in a quiet bedroom beside her brother, separated only by glass and sand from the young man she loved, a young man who loved her back

A good man is hard to find," she said wistfully. "Not everyone is as lucky as you are.

I saw my bulky person in the windows of the passing storefronts and wondered, when will that man there find himself to be loved?

I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.

There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.

The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.

The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.

The covetous man is ever in want.

There are still a few men who love desperately.

I wished to be loved by another. But I desire no man's pity.

Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream.

The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.

Man's restlessness makes him strive.

I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.

When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts.

I grew up missing my mom while she was right in front of me.

You need a sanctuary. Somewhere where it doesn't feel like it's being tainted by everybody's opinions and other people's money. I think I'm kind of homesick right now.