Quotes About Yearning

We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.

You may have the universe if I may have Italy.

Gin a body meets a body Comin' through the rye. Gin a body kiss a body Need a body cry?

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything by a fresh starting-point for further desires.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.

Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.

Imprisoned in every fat man, a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.

Oh, to be in England Now that April's there.

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies, no longer tameless then, To mold a pin, or fabricate a nail!

All my possessions for a moment of time.

You may ask me for anything you like except time.

O, for an engine to keep back all clocks!

What you can't get is just what suits you.

The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest.

Man's heart is never satisfied; the snake would swallow the elephant.

To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.

We are under the spell always of what is distant from us. It is not in our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.

In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich, who want something more; that of the sick, who want something different; and that of the traveler, who says, "Anywhere but here."

A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home.

If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.