Quotes About Yearning

I'm sick and tired of life with no desire. I don't want a flame, I want a fire.

Stay with me; I want to be alone

I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long.

One believes in what one wants to believe in.

When I'm married I want to be single, and when I'm single I want to be married.

Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.

Why can't I love him (a 2 yr old nephew) from afar? That's how I want to love him - through pictures and folklore.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.

Guys don't really care, they just want to get the clothes off.

Ironically, the more we crave to possess and dominate the world and others, the deeper and more unbearable becomes the chasm of our own emptiness.

I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.

All the world is sad and drearyEv'rywhere I roam,Oh! darkies, how my heart grows weary,Far from the old folks at home.

He thinks of that ocean house and wishes he were back in his former life or that one could take one moment and remain inside it like an egg inside its shell, instead of constantly being hurried into the future by good luck or bad.

Trying to remember you is like carrying water in my hands a long distance across sand. Somewhere people are waiting. They have drunk nothing for days.

He didn't want to be this thin man whose desires were barely covered by skin, standing absolutely still. But everytime he moved there was another place to go, and everytime sadness would arrive with its wonderful cocoon not even that would last.

You said this place was haunted," Shooting Glasses tells her. "By all the ghosts of who everybody used to want to be, before they died inside," Jade says.

Jade pats her pocket for the second sandwich she knows is just as gone as the first. It's less actually looking for it, more showing the world that she's hungry, that it can deliver her some nuggets or a burrito or fishsticks if it wants. She won't tell anybody.

I hated Darren, and I would have chewed my hand off just to see him one more time.

To behold Queen Gwenhwyvar and the Lady of the Lake together was to peer too long into the sun's brilliant dazzle, to feel the heart lurch in the breast for yearning, to have the words stolen from the tongue before the lips could speak them.

Oh, I have dreams, you fool. I have dreams. I dream of blood .

I knew, even as we touched that I had never wanted anything more in all my life. All my crabbed cravings were as a cupful of pond water beside the vast ocean of longing I felt surging through me. My head swam; my eyes blurred. I burned from the inside out as if my blood and bones were consumed with liquid fire.

Young Bran, striving to please and yearning for the approving touch of a father's hand, only ever saw that hand raised in anger. Thus, he learned at an early age that since he could never please his father, he might as well please himself.

If it doesn't take your breath away, make a bigger wish.