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Quotes About Yearn

Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.
~ David Lodge
How many people have you made homesick for God?
~ Oswald Chambers
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
God, it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach.
~ Tom Petty
We are like lutes once held by God. Being away from his warm body fully explains this constant yearning.
~ Hafez Ibrahim
By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Nobody loves me. Sometimes I wish God could come down and hug me.
~ Ja Rule
How terrible the need for God.
~ Theodore Roethke
To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.
~ Anne Sexton
Oh, to know God's private address.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
And If only I could, I'd make a deal with God.
~ David Levithan
For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more!
~ Saul Bellow
I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.
~ Martha McSally
She wouldn't come back. She hated me. She hated Nan. She hated my mom. She hated her father. She wouldn't come back here... but God, I wanted her to.
~ Abbi Glines
I bring up God alot in my show, know why? Because I miss him.
~ Brad Stine
I bleed my bones, their marrow to bestowUpon that God who knows what I would know.
~ Theodore Roethke
Please, God, send me something to adore.
~ Michael Cunningham
Cry to god. If you do that just for a couple minutes with your whole being, just like a child who so badly wants a cookie. You will break through the barrier of the mind.
~ Frederick Lenz
As much as you long for it, it longs for you more. Take one step toward the Big Person and it will take a hundred steps toward you.
~ Christopher Pike, Strange Girl
We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. I didn't know what I wanted
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.
~ Henry Rollins
Home pulls. It draws you back to tell you you don't belong.
~ Glen Duncan
From ev'ry single window, I see your face. But when I reach a window there's an empty space.
~ Larry Conley