Quotes About Yearning

God is a luxury I can't afford.

Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want

Today is made of yesterday, each time I steal toward rites I do not know, waiting for the lost ingredient, as if salt or money or even lust would keep us calm and prove us whole at last.

All this money can't buy me a time machine.

For the first time in my life I realized what a horrible, miserable, salvationless hell it is to be without money.

It seemed to Fire it was rarely enough one knew a person one wished to marry. How unjust then to meet that person, and be kept from it because one's bed was made of hay and not feathers.

I'm the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream.

Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in the invisible morning

I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It's a morning yearning.

Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasn't happened this morning, either.

Under my head till morning; but the rain, Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh, Upon the glass and listen for reply.

One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.

I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one morning and says I can't bake any more bread.

You know you love him when you can't sleep at night and get up early to talk to him the next morning.

If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

I want to tell you how much I miss my mother. Bits of her are still there. I miss her most when I'm sitting across from her.

I started writing letters home to my mother, saying that I wanted to come home, grandma won't let me sing.

When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child.