Quotes About Yearning

Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?

The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.

Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion. We simply want to know why.

She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.

If you tell me I can't have something then that just makes me want it more.

Henry turned his hat in his hands but went on looking at Diana in a way that made her want to crawl into his arms and stay there forever.

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.

Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out.

Si quelqu'un veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'il en existe un. (If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.)

Deep down, everybody wants to do what they want to be doing. They just feel that they can't.

I love the idea of birds having human qualities...I think all humans want to be birds so we can fly.

I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated.

You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you

What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.

But sometimes, it's harder to admit to ourselves we want love in our lives than it is to keep living without it.

A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.

If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.

We didn't have MTV, and I was desperate for something. You know, you're young, you want something off the beaten path. And Twin Peaks was like, surrealism on network TV.

It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.

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.

Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only.

Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

People define their life by what they want versus what they have. People get fixated on something and they have to have it, even though that voice inside tells them it's not meant for them.

I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.