Quotes About Yearning

O that I were your lover for a month or two, he murmured, I would make that pretty heart's blood of yours ache in a fortnight.

God knows I never sought anything in you except yourself. I wanted simply you, nothing of yours.

Robert Kennedy, on his own, left no great legislative legacy, founded no great institution, led no great movement. His most extraordinary accomplishment - and it was extraordinary - was to embody in himself, and create in others, a kind of transcendent yearning for the possibility of redemptive change.

Era sfinito, eppure non sentiva alcun desiderio di andare a casa. Ogni sera era la stessa cosa. Tornare a casa significava affrontare un oceano di solitudine.

I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.

God is the father who watches and waits for his children, runs out to meet them, embraces them, pleads with them, begs and urges them to come home.

I know that the fact that I am always searching for God, always struggling to discover the fullness of Love, always yearning for the complete truth, tells me that I have already been given a taste of God, of Love and of Truth. I can only look for something that I have, to some degree, already found. How can I search for beauty and truth unless that beauty and truth are already known to me in the depth of my heart?

It had brought me into touch with something within me that lies far beyond the ups and downs of a busy life, something that represents the ongoing yearning of the human spirit, the yearning for a final return, an unambiguous sense of safety, a lasting home.

There is a deep hole in your being, like an abyss. You will never succeed in filling that hole, because your needs are inexhaustible. You have to work around it so that gradually the abyss closes.

Sometimes we feel trapped in our humanness. We experience keenly how things fall short of our expectations.

One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.

What if we feel a yearning to which no breast answers?

What if we feel a yearning to which no breast answers? I walk alone. My heart is full. Feelings impede the current of my thoughts. I knock on the earth for my friend. I expect to meet him at every turn; but no friend appears, and perhaps none is dreaming of me.

One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate...Love must be as much a light as a flame.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

This shall be the test of innocence—if I can hear a taunt, and look out on this friendly moon, pacing the heavens in queen-like majesty, with the accustomed yearning.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.

know one or two families, at least, in this town, who, for nearly a generation, have been wishing to sell their houses in the outskirts and move into the village, but have not been able to accomplish it, and only death will set them free.

A mennyekbe sóvárgunk? – hisz a Földnek is szégyenére válunk!

The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation.

Il y a en moi une exaltation et une passion qui ont besoin du recours à Dieu, même si je ne crois pas en Dieu.

What is left to Lust when its cravings at last subside, as subside in the end they will? It is alone. It has died. It has made no bonds and is in the desert that it has made, with no longer even a craving.