Quotes About Yearning

Down in the human spirit there is a center that opens on to infinity... Our deepest hungers are not for food and drink, not for amusements and recreations, not for property and wardrobes, not for notoriety and gossip. We hunger for truth, we thirst to drink beauty, we yearn to celebrate, we seek to delight, we stretch out to love and be loved. That is why anything less than everything is not enough.

I don't get back to Michigan nearly as much as I'd like to.

I will never forget the hunger I used to feel.

I'm greedy for experience. I keep finding new things.

As a kid, I hated home, and I just wanted so much to learn or do something that could take me away and keep me away forever. And then I got blessed to get to make music and meet people who wanted to work with me. And then, the next thing I knew, I was on the road, and I was gone.

As a political exile, you always think you're going home next year.

It would be nice to have someone to go back to, a girl to call at the end of the night after a long day.

When you're on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn't there at the end of the night, you feel empty.

So many nights I'm up there on stage and I wish everybody out in the audience could see what I see and feel what I feel.

I wish I wrote 'Don't Speak' by No Doubt. I mean, that is a classic heartbreak song; it gets me every time.

There are people I haven't seen for a year and we will do a show or something and when we hang out it'll be this instant endearment. I'm like, 'Our lives, the cosmos, are intersecting, and this will bring us closer together again. I have no doubt.'

Don't know. There's a lot of magic between you, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard." Tuck patted him on the back and got up to leave. It was more than he'd ever said to Dawson about Amanda. As he walked away, Dawson squinted into the sunlight and the tears started again. He knew that Amanda would always be the very best part of him, the self he would always long to know.

I am sorry, my darling, but there will never be another to replace you. The words I whispered to you were folly, and should have realized it then. You- and you alone- have always been the only thing I wanted, and now that you are gone have no desire to find another.

when she was able to imagine a different life that might have been hers, the kind of life she knew that she'd always really wanted

Life, it seemed was full of regret, and he yearned to turn back the clock so he could love parts of his life over again.

I love you, Jamie," I said again, but this time she wasn't frightened. Instead our eyes met across the table, and I watched as hers began to shine. She sighed and looked away, running her hand through her hair, then turned to me again. I kissed her hand, smiling in return. "I love you, too," she finally whispered. They were the words I'd been praying to hear.

Todo el mundo tiene sueños que no llegan a cumplirse —respondió ella con un tono suave.

All that she could think was that she needed him. She needed his arms around her, needed him to hold her and whisper that they'd find a way to be together. pg. 383

Throughout my remaining days in New Bern, I wondered what she was doing at any given moment and where she was. I no longer felt complete, as if part of me had been hollowed out, leaving only an aching void. Before Natalie, I used to believe that with love, anything was possible. Now I understand that sometimes love isn't enough.

No necesito a nadie —susurró él con la voz rasgada.

Sapeva che lei avrebbe sempre rappresentato il meglio di lui, la parte che avrebbe sempre anelato a conoscere.

Supongo que todavía anhelo la clase de amor que compartimos aquel verano.

De no habernos conocido, creo que mi habría sabido que mi vida no era completa. Y que habría viajo por todo el mundo en tu busca, anque no supiera a quién buscaba

It was tangible and real, close enough to allow me to dream of moving back to North Carolina; on the other hand, it unfortunately made time slow down. Isn't that the way it always is when you really want something?