Quotes About Yearning

someone's sent a loving note in lines of returning geese and as the moon fills my western chamber as petals dance over the flowing stream again I think of you the two of us living a sadness apart a hurt that can't be removed yet when my gaze comes down my heart stays up

All dreams. If there was love or pity for him, it was only in his dreams.

Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.

it made him want to sing hymns he'd never even heard before

Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.

I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don't know where it is.

You care. Not the cares of the body. But you have the caring of the soul. It's a different kind of desire, but you all have it, and it never goes away.

I didn't want to see you. They told me. I was afraid that I'd still love you. I hoped that you would. My fear, your wish- both granted.

You don't understand," he said. "Yes I do." "No you don't. I don't want to beat Peter." "Then what do you want?" "I want him to love me." She had no answer. As far as she knew, Peter didn't love anybody. Ender said nothing more. Just lay there.

As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what just living might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.

I would follow such beauty, said something inside Ender. I would see as those eyes see.

My father once told me that there are no gods; only the cruel manipulations of evil people who pretended that their power was good and their exploitation was love. But if there are no gods; why are we so hungry to believe in them? Just because evil liars stand between us and the gods and block our view of them does not mean that the bright halo that surrounds each liar is not the outer edges of a god, waiting for us to find our way around the lie.

The message was clear: touch me not, thou mortal, but yes, I will bestow this smile on you. You are mine, but I am not yet yours.

Why don't you speak to me, O Gods! she cried out

Sólo se desea lo que no se tiene.

The message was mixed, yet clear: Touch me not, thou mortal, but yes, I will bestow this smile on you. You are mine, but I am not yet yours.

You get so you kind of like the feeling of being hungry.

That's why I don't want him to take our babies away from me. I must have them all, the way conquerors have had to have this city. I must have them. That is my empire.

You only covet what you do not have.' Who said that?" "You did," said Han Fei-tzu. "Some say, 'what you cannot have.' Others say, 'what you should not have.' I say, 'You can truly covet only what you will always hunger for.

She smiled and held him; her hair took the tears from his face. "Ah, Miro, I'm glad he wasn't your father. Because then I'd be your sister, and I could never hope to have you for myself.

I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

When you really want love, you will find it waiting for you.