Quotes About Yearning

Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. 1

Every day I carry the weight of your absence" The Perfume Thief

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

To be desired by those who are themselves highly desirable is in itself an aphrodisiac.

Knowing someone isn't coming back doesn't mean you ever stop waiting

It led to the unrelenting hunger of hearts, to lustful, searching eyes, and creeping, confident hands, to souls who believed that what they could touch they could own.

Darren's lack of milk shake right now feels like some sort of war crime. Like someone should contact Amnesty International.

In fact, desire is sustained dissatisfaction. This state of sustained dissatisfaction is the normal state for subjects within a society of prohibition. Prohibition produces dissatisfied, desiring subjects, subjects who remain securely within the confines of the social order.

You're gonna turn me into one of those fat, useless, contented cats," Binx said.

Maar plotseling begon mijn hart sneller te slaan, mijn hand beefde en drukte de zijne; ik werd warm en met mijn ogen zocht ik in het halfduister zijn blik en plotseling voelde ik, dat ik niet bang voor hem was, maar dat deze angst liefde was, een nieuwe liefde, groter en inniger dan vroeger.

A desire of desires: the melancholy.

Robert Maxwell had always yearned to manage a publicly quoted company, not just for the prestige but, more pertinently, to enable him to play with other people's money. The Maxwell Communication Corporation was that tool, marred though it was for him by a colossal defect: the legal requirement for public accountability.

Each day the pair would meet at 2pm at the exact halfway point between the villages and stand a hundred yards apart, staring longingly at each other, yearning for the time when the pestilence would pass.

I miss the ocean; I miss Fenway.

I think there's a lot of people in their dingy boats in the middle of the ocean pining for the days of closed-ended narrative.

Longing, for everyone, is always there, isn't it? More intense at some times than others. You get closer to less longing - an odd metaphoric phrasing, I realize - then, you are further and longing more than ever again.

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.

I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.

Oh my God, I would love to go on stage so much. I'm undignified with how badly I want it.

I have fantasized about people I haven't worked with for sure. Sometimes, when am watching a film, I'll be thinking, Oh my god, I should've got this scene or this song.'

I would have liked the old days.

I gasp for air if I don't get to breathe Italian air once a year.

My parents got divorced when I was nine months old, and my father would only pop in and see me once a year, if that. I don't have much contact with him.