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Quotes About Yearning

I bleed my bones, their marrow to bestowUpon that God who knows what I would know.
~ Theodore Roethke
I don't want to feel anything for you, Dante" "God, Tess. I don't want to feel anything for you either.
~ Tina St. John
Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.
~ Mark Twain
Please, God, send me something to adore.
~ Michael Cunningham
For every person is a gaping space waiting to be filled with God.
~ Olivier Clement
God, I needed you," he murmured. "I can't even tell you how many times I thought about this. The funny thing is, I don't need you any less now. I think I need you more." ~Shane~
~ Rachel Caine
God, his chin. She wanted to make an honest woman of his chin. She wanted to lock it down.
~ Rainbow Rowell
God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.
~ Richard Yates
You may not know, But it is absolutely true: With each heartbeat Your heart is calling: "God, God!" You may not hear it, But God Himself definitely hears Your heart's cry.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Everybody has God inside, but not everybody is able to see God within. One can see God only when one cries for Him. Those who cry for God and pray to God can realise God.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Each of us has a God-shaped space within us. Only God can fill that space. But we run ourselves ragged trying to find things other than God to fill it with.
~ Desmond Tutu
I think my characters - well, at least a few of them - are hoping or searching for some kind of contact with god.
~ Donald Ray Pollock
Cry to god. If you do that just for a couple minutes with your whole being, just like a child who so badly wants a cookie. You will break through the barrier of the mind.
~ Frederick Lenz
My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God--then having it taken away, forever.
~ Glen Duncan
God, I wish you could have been there.
~ J. D. Salinger
God, I miss you," he said in a voice that cracked. "Every night. Every day.
~ J.R. Ward
Redemption, transformation--God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone?
~ Jennifer Egan
O God, split the heavens and come down! Manifest yourself somehow. Do what only you can do.
~ Jim Cymbala
Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God knows how ardently I wish I had ten lives.
~ John Herschel
Anything less then God, ever me wanteth.
~ Julian of Norwich
Are we eager to know the ways of God?
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I feign fullness, but in reality I am achingly empty. And it is because I too often sit at the table of the world instead of the feet of God.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
~ C.S. Lewis