Quotes About Yearning

Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?

One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

Dead men would start and move toward me to learn of love.

What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.

I never loved a man as far as I could pitch my shoe.

I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

There is poetry in a pork chop to a hungry man.

Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog

Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?

What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...?

Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.

A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.

He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.

Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.

Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

When a man is starving in the streets he is not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne!