Quotes About Yearning

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.

My ultimate search has been for a muse.

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

I remember, as a child, wanting all the time to buy my parents presents. I stood around forlornly in fancy shops, unable to afford a single thing.

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.

One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to get out.

My body felt alive. I need more. "Valkyrie, " Fen growled, eyes locked on my mouth. "Put your lips back on mine, and I will give you what you crave.

She did not realise that there could be a joy - a spiritual ecstasy- in the touch of a certain man, or that she would long for his touch with all her being

Boys, at war, so far away, will naturally droop, both in body and mind, from lack of a particular girl's snuggling and cuddling.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

Like a child who saves their favourite food on the plate for last, I try to save all thoughts of you for the end of the day so I can dream with the taste of you on my tongue.

May Allah steal from you All that steals you from Him.

O Beloved of Hearts, I beseech only You. Have pity this day on those who turn to You. My Hope, my Rest, my Delight, this heart can love none other but You.

O Lord... Once I wanted You so much I didn't even dare walk past Your house- And now I am not even worthy to be let in

More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

My request is not for bliss of the Garden. I only desire to see You.

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.

All the wisdom in the world cannot put in one's heart the love one yearned for as a small child.

All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.

A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.