Quotes About Yearning

Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

Once you have seen his face you will forever long to see it again.

Prayer is our yearning for God, the cry of our poverty and misery, stretching out toward the throne of His divine mercy.

The godly shall desired God.

Like God, art seemed to hover over us, perhaps benevolent, and often sublime, but constantly, maddeningly out of reach.

As much as you long for it, it longs for you more. Take one step toward the Big Person and it will take a hundred steps toward you.

Some are like the Moon, good looking, but only when they're away from you.

Night has brought to those who sleep, only dreams they can not keep.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

Seth told us good night and left. I watched him go wistfully. "Anyone else here feel like swooning?

Will you come down and kiss me good night?

In various memoir pieces, I have traced the trajectory of yearning through decisions made, good and bad, that had somehow kept the ambition on track.

You know what makes your heart swift, you know what makes your breath catch your throat, you know what makes your chest tight with anticipation. Go get that!

We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

Wanting ... is something 'having' cannot cure.