Quotes About Yearning

Prayer is the voice of longing; it reaches outwards and inwards to unearth our ancient belonging.

Who can ever hold the essence of fire? Who can ever know the alchemy of desire?

I wanted to cry, but the tears did not come.

The more I read, the hungrier I become. Each book seemed promising, each page I turned offered an escapade, the allure of another world, other destinies, other dreams.

Trangen til å lese tok meg og holdt meg i sitt deilige, berusende grep. Jo mer jeg leste, desto mer hungret jeg. Hvert verk var rikt på løfter; hver side jeg bladde om, var en eventyrferd, tiltrekning fra en annen verden.

You were a quiet man, yet you took up a vast amount of silent space and that was what I missed.

Maybe over time I'll forget the feel and smell and sound of him, the same way I am starting to forget Mom, but I'll never be able to forget that he should've been here.

But how you feel love and understand love are two different things. Now, so many years down the road, I recognize that I was alone and adrift and that he was lonely in the way that only a ladies' man can be. He reminded me of Atlanta, and I reminded him of the same. All these were reasons why we were drawn to each other, but standing with him outside of Maroons, we were past reason. Human emotion is beyond comprehension, smooth and uninterrupted, like an orb made of blown glass.

how you feel love and understand love are two different things. Now, so many years down the road, I recognize that I was alone and adrift and that he was lonely in the way that only a ladies' man can be. He reminded me of Atlanta, and I reminded him of the same. All these were reasons why we were drawn to each other, but standing with him outside of Maroons, we were past reason. Human emotion is beyond comprehension, smooth and uninterrupted, like an orb made of blown glass.

I feel like I need and need and need and it's wearing a hole in the fabric.

But I lived in a world where you could never want what you wanted out in the open.

emptied. Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it's gone, nothing is whole again.

Mr. Hamilton, I do need her." He shook his head. "You don't even know yet what need is.

there should be a word for this, the way it feels to steal something that's already yours.

On the radio Smokey Robinson complained that "a taste of honey is worse than none at all.

But I recognized them by the ambition that clung to their skins like spicy cologne, the slight breeze of power that stirred the air, and finally, a mourning that left my mouth tasting of ash.

Turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you...

In the middle of the night When I'm in this dream It's like A million little stars Spelling out your name You gotta come on, come on Say that we'll be together Come on, come on

Just know I'm right here hopin' That you'll come in with the rain...

She floats down the aisle like a pageant queen. But I know you wish it was me. You wish it was me don't you

Just because as human beings, what we can't have is what we reply in our head over and over again before we go to sleep.

Give me something that'll haunt me when you're not around...

In the middle of the night When Im in this dream Its like a million little stars Spelling out your name

But I miss screamin' and fightin' and kissin' in the rain and it's 2 a.m. and I'm cursin' your name. You're so in love the you act insane, and that's the way I loved you.