Quotes About Yearning

Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave.

My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.

If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

Of all the things I miss the thing I miss the most is my mind.

Blue moon you saw me standing alone Without a dream in my heart Without a love of my own.

We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

All alone by the telephone.

I am nothing. I'm like someone who's been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.

Left alone with the dial tone...excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?

We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.

Uncle Burley said hills always looked blue when you were far away from them. That was a pretty color for hills; the little houses and barns and fields looked so neat and quiet tucked against them. It made you want to be close to them. But he said that when you got close they were like the hills you'd left, and when you looked back your own hills were blue and you wanted to go back again. He said he reckoned a man could wear himself out going back and forth.

Whatever is singing is found, awaiting the return of whatever is lost.

Another place! it's enough to grieve me – that old dream of going, of becoming a better man just by getting up and going to a better place.

But we had a year when even to look at one another would make us grieve.

The little room was full of ordinary things that had already become precious, that I couldn't help but want to have again, to feel like whoever it was I used to be, whether it was my past or someone else's.

The story of Thomas Day's quest to create a perfect wife symbolizes an eternal human desire: to craft a supreme being

One solitary, overriding thought: get away from here. People frighten me.

she is admired from afar. These admirers court her in secret, in the safety of their dreams.