Quotes About Yearning

we are much fonder of the pictures of those we love, when they are at a great distance, than when they are near to us.

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

To quench that thirst, Ward would become a human

I'm not trouble at all. I'm just a guy trying to get a girl to give him the time of day. I'm like every song on the radio.

I only know that since he left, My life's so empty. Though I try to forget, It just can't be done.

Hope is determination, you think. Hope is desperation. Hope is a yearning you can't deny. And hope is just plain old-fashioned insanity.

There's no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire.

My mouth tastes like all the things I should have said. I don't want to be this way, but I have been since you left.

I wish I had 11 hands with 55 fingers so I could paint and write and fuck and feed and grab grab grab everything. I. Want. It. All. It must be mine.

Each of our lives was knit into these hedges and rooted in these fields and yet, notwithstanding all this, in response to some powerful yearning, my father was about to set out for the fifth time into the still more remote and untrodden west.

You weren't there.

Desire is an attempt to fill the void

Desire is an attempt to feel the void.

I thought it was safer and easier to be one my own. But I don't think I was to be invisible anymore because-because it's lonely, and I don't want to be lonely. I don't want to be alone.

I glance at the exit across the room. I want out. The bird in my chest is crashing up against its cage. I can feel the heavy thump, thump, thump of its feverish body inside and I open my mouth, not to speak, but to let the bird out so I can breathe.

The sound of her silk skirt has stopped.On the marble pavement dust grows.Her empty room is cold and still.Fallen leaves are piled against the doors.Longing for that lovely ladyHow can I bring my aching heart to rest?

Dear God, teach me to be careless.

I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.

I can settle down and be doing just fineTill I hear an old train rolling down the line,Then I hurry straight home and packAnd if I didn't go, I believe I'd blow my stackI love you baby, but you gotta understandWhen the Lord made me he made a ramblin' man

God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.

I experienced the happiest moment of my life when you took me in your arms as your wife and pressed me to your heart; when I even think of that moment my heart beats madly and I have a terrible longing for you, and I think I would hug you to death if I had you here now.

You are a dreamer, and that is your misfortune.

There's always something lacking for human happiness, we can never be perfectly content.

The Fathers of the Church say that prayer, properly understood, is nothing other than becoming a longing for God.