Quotes About Yearning

Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don't get to choose.

There I sat, in the wreckage of my apartment, in the wreckage of my life – no love, no prospects, a gnawing sense of existential futility along with the certainty that a better life was being lived by everyone else

The craving became almost unbearable, and he felt his heart break with the wanting.

All she felt was mind-numbing exhaustion, and a desperate yearning for the sweet forgetfulness of sleep.

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

You love something that ain't there and then you start hating what is there, and that's hell.

She looked like a woman you might jump a few lights to get home to.

The loneliest sound in the world is other people making love.

You must always kiss as if kissing will be outlawed at dawn.

Everyone is hungry. That won't stop

She's beautiful. She's the only woman - I've told you this, right? -Naturelle is the only woman I fantasize about after sleeping with her. I still do. Sometimes I'm riding the subway and all I can think about is getting home and getting her naked. p125

Sometimes you can hear the wire, hear it reaching out across the miles; whining with its own weight, crying from the cold, panting at the distance, humming with the phantom sounds of someone else's conversation. You cannot always hear it - only sometimes; when the night is deep and the room is dark and the sound of the phone's ringing has come slicing through uneasy sleep.

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.

My soul is disconsolate when God is withdrawn.

The imagination simplifies our endless desires and causes us to fantasize that they can be fulfilled.

Human beings are primarily defined by what we desire, not what we know.

temple and cathedral are attractive because they spatially and acoustically recreate the cave, where early humans first expressed their spiritual yearnings.

As his (C. S. Lewis's) good friend Owen Barfield once remarked, Lewis radiated a sense that the spiritual world is home, that we are always coming back to a place we have never yet reached.

And, Kar, love is not a commandment, it is a need, as real as eating.

Well, yes,when you no longer have any desire, you are dead. Even desire for a product, a consumer item, is better than no desire at all. Desire for a camera, for instance, even a cheap one, a tawdry one, is enough to keep death at bay." a wicked smile, an inhale of the cigarette with those lips. "If the desire is real, of course.

Nothing tears the heart like a glimpse of happiness.

I've heard them say the heart's bottomless but I don't agree. I love my boys and girls but when my mind is clear I have to admit I wish I could give out more love.

Do you know what I miss most about Rosemary? Simply knowing she was there.

There was a terrible stretch of time in Einar's life - from the time Hans left Bluetooth until the day he met Greta at the academy - when he lived without anyone to reveal his secrets to. Lili could remember that, the feeling of biting down on one's thoughts and feelings and storing them up for no one.