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Quotes About Yearning

Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?
~ Mitch Albom
The very thought of you and I forget to do the little ordinary things that everyone ought to do…
~ Mitch Albom
You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain - no matter how smart or accomplished - they cry, they yearn, they hurt. We all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart
~ Mitch Albom
So many people are in pain—no matter how smart or accomplished—they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.
~ Mitch Albom
I never wanted anyone else, he said quietly. I know, she said. I was still in love with you. I know. She nodded. I felt it. Here? he asked. Even here, she said, smiling. That's how strong lost love can be.
~ Mitch Albom
Mitch, I know it hurts when you can't be with someone you love. But you need to be at peace with his desires.
~ Mitch Albom
He did not know that the child who had asked for yesterday was now seeking to own tomorrow. Victor never prayed
~ Mitch Albom
I missed the crowds in those big stadiums, the flashbulbs, the roaring cheers - the majesty of the whole thing. I missed it bitterly. So did my father. We shared a thirst to return; unspoken, undeniable.
~ Mitch Albom
Seberapa banyak pun kau mengumpulkan hari-hari sepanjang hidupmu, semua takkan cukup untuk menggantikan satu hari itu, satu hari yang ingin sekali bisa kau miliki lagi.
~ Mitch Albom
and his mind raced ahead of him, beckoning him to follow.
~ Mitch Albom
You made me love you I didn't want to do it I didn't want to do it.… You made me love you and all the time you knew it
~ Mitch Albom
We burn for water, we growl for food. But what we yearn for most is comfort. A soft embrace. Someone to whisper "It's all right. It's all right.
~ Mitch Albom
What's the truth? Annie asked. That the end of loneliness is when someone needs you. The old woman smiled. And the world is so full of need.
~ Mitch Albom
We all search for something to save us. He thinks it is him.
~ Mitch Albom
Pouco importa, disse para si mesmo. Ela está em outro lugar, eu estou aqui, e nada posso fazer por ela.
~ Mitch Cullin
ele havia determinado que sentir falta de alguém também era, de certa forma, sentir sua presença.
~ Mitch Cullin
There was love here, the voice said again. But whose love? Ico wondered. He had assumed Ozuma had been talking about the queen and her daughter--but maybe... From the very first time he had seen her, Ico had wanted to save Yorda. There had been no thought, no reason--when he saw her in the cage, he knew he had to set her free.
~ Miyuki Miyabe
Well see what you wanna see. You should see it all. Well take what you want from me. You deserve it all. Nine times out of ten our hearts just get dissolved. Well I want a better place or just a better way to fall.
~ Modest Mouse
Here are the long-awaited evenings Here you are. Here am I. Your face the orizon I want to see
~ Mohja Kahf
L'esilio più lungo è l'esilio del cuore L'unico passaggio per il ritorno è l'amore
~ Mohja Kahf
The longest exile is exile of the heart The only passage for return is love
~ Mohja Kahf
It is the effect of scarcity; one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.
~ Mohsin Hamid
I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.
~ Mohsin Hamid
She sees how you diminish her solitude, and, more meaningfully, she sees you seeing, which sparks in her that oddest of desires an I can have for a you, the desire that you be less lonely.
~ Mohsin Hamid