Quotes About Yearning

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

I feel like a drunken man who doesn't have a drink.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Where were you when my heart was breaking? Will you scream out my name when I am dead and gone?

What?" "To stop. That I didn't want to talk to him. That I wanted him to

To me you are stardust sprinkled across a night sky, forever in my dreams, but out of my reach.

He buried his hands in the rich velvet of her hair. "I thought I'd die for wanting you.

How could I have let you do any of those things when I've never even seen your face? When I don't even know your name?" "That may be true," he said quietly, "but for just a moment there, I would have sworn you knew my heart.

The time you think you're missing misses you too.

These lands are too parched, Please rain-bless our hearts!

You left, and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness.

...and leave wishes to those foolish enough to make them.

As I write this, I am still waiting for Steve to walk through the door.

It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes.

It is very painful to love someone and believe you cannot be with them.

I wanted happiness that wasn't innocence. I wanted romance that wasn't tragedy.

That's what poems are for, unlivable love." epigraph to "In Lilac-Light