Quotes About Yearning

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.

0 God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.

Fly the pleasure that bites tomorrow.

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth, The longings after something lost, The spirit's yearning cry, The strivings after better hopes, These things can never die.

Go, little letter, apace, apace, Fly; Fly to the light in the valley below - Tell my wish to her dewy blue eye.

Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which, if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied the man.

Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire.

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.

We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.

Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

The problem is not that you cannot have what you think you want. The problem is that when you get what you think you want, it won't satisfy.

We grow weary of those things (and perhaps soonest) which we most desire.

Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or, if there be, they will not let you have it.

I have always been waiting for something better-sometimes to see the best I had snatched from me.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning.

I wish I knew the good of wishing.