Quotes About Yearning

It was a nice dream, wasn't it, Syl?" he asked. "That we could escape? Find peace at long last?" "Such a wonderful dream," she whispered.

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.

When has any man ever been content with what he has? When has any tyrant said to himself, 'This is enough'?

I wanted a frozen burrito. Sara died for that.

To be human is to want that which we can not have.

He wanted to go. He hurt so much. He wanted it all to end, to go away. Everything. He just wanted it to stop.

it is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.

But…I always felt like I was standing on the other side of a large glass window. I could see the world passing beyond it, could even pretend I was part of it. But that barrier was still there. Separating me from everyone else." He looked away. "That sounds stupid, doesn't it?

My heart lays on the ground, hopeing one day you will be there to pick it up

You take the breath right out of me You left a hole where my heart should be

Grief seems to create losses within us that reach beyond our awareness--we feel as if we're missing something that was invisible and unknown to us while we had it, but is now painfully gone...Longing is not conscious wanting; it's an involuntary yearning for wholeness, for understanding, for meaning, for the opportunity to regain or even simply touch what we've lost.

We define nostalgia as a yearning for the way things used to be in our often idealized and self-protective version of the past.

I admitted, still drinking in his eyes, his amazing face. I never seemed to get enough of that.

And he stood so closely behind her that she felt his breath feather her neck. Blanche leaped away, putting a polite distance between them, her heart suddenly thundering in her chest. His body hadn't touched hers, but it might as well have, for she had felt his heat.

You deny it all you want, but you are mine. Call it passion, call it obsession, call it whatever pleases you, but you run hot and wild in my blood, Katherine-I cannot give you up.

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the first thing you learn about desire is that it does not wear down with time. there comes a time when you can no longer get your pleasure but the desire stays with you— a dampish kind of feeling beneath the armpits at the back of the tongue. — Brenda Marie Osbey, from "Desire and Private Griefs" All Saints (Louisiana State University Press, 1997)

You ever want me to show you what it's like to have a man in your bed, you know where to find me.

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

I have been seized by the power of a great affection.

Perhaps the gut issue is not how much theology we have studied or how much Scripture we have memorized. All that really matters is this: Have you experienced the furious longing of God or not?

Faith means you want God and want to want nothing else.

A library at night is full of sounds: the unread books can't stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious.

He had drive and hunger somewhere, like a phantom limb, agitating faintly away in his gut. He'd been an ambitious young man, he'd gotten drunk just looking at the constantly changing face of the churning, radiant world.