Quotes About Yearning

I was standing onstage last year, and I felt like I wanted to be somewhere else. No matter how many people were out there, it all just felt like a blank sheet of paper.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation!

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

It is not enough for a man to dwell in the Land of Israel, he must also pray to be free.

Man, I need to impress her, cause I'd like to undress her.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.

Desire is the essence of a man.

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Some men hunger so much for love that they lose everything that is loveable about them.

That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.

The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.

We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.

Desire is the very essence of man

Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?

Am I a man? To want you so badly that nothing else matters? To see you, and know I would sacrifice honor or family or life itself to lie wi' you, even though ye'd left me?

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

A man's ideal woman is the one he couldn't get.

All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly I got to love one man till I die Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.

The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.

Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.