Quotes About Longing

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.

There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else.

Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out here on land a little longer, going our sundry roads to the shore.

The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.

It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.

The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving

The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

Desire and happiness cannot live together.

Desire makes everything blossom

The fulfillment of every desire only reveals its inadequacy.

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

We are formed by what we desire

I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.

When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

One must desire something to be alive.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.