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Quotes About Yearning

I don't have music, Christ I wish I had music but all I have is words.
~ Sarah Kane
Sweetest melodies.Are those that are by distance made more sweet.
~ William Wordsworth
I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.
~ Olive Schreiner
I cried for madder music and for stronger wine.
~ Ernest Dowson
Impulsive passion please set me free.
~ Delano Johnson, Love Quotes
It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best friend. Rather limited scope.
~ Holly Near
I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me
~ Laura Hillenbrand
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Your personal nature seeks its paradise.
~ Ibn Arabi
The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
God, give me by Your grace what You give to dogs by nature.
~ Mechthild of Magdeburg
Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?
~ Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park
The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.
~ C. S. Lewis
My mind can take no hold on the present world, nor rest in it a moment, but my whole nature rushes onward with irresistible force towards a future and better state of being.
~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte
It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.
~ Mary Oliver
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
~ Simone Weil
But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.
~ Jojo Moyes
I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
~ Charlotte Bronte
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
~ William Hazlitt
That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.
~ A.S. Byatt, Possession
It's in my nature to feel, 'I could be this! This could be mine!'
~ June Squibb
"I want to be a lawn." Greta Garbo.
~ W. C. Sellar
HE wants you to feel HIM in any possible way you can, but you lazy bird, come on, make a step and you will feel all you got to feel.
~ Mahrukh
Rain, Aren't you my soul's joyful tearsonly longing for the sky to be happy?
~ Munia Khan