Quotes About Longing

If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire

The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.

Mum, mum, He that keeps nor crust nor crumb, Weary of all, shall want some.

In the end one loves one's desire and not what is desired.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

That we may not fall short of desire, but let us give way to the unspoken passion hidden in the closet of our discretion. ("Crépuscule du désir")

We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.

Trapped in infernoIt blazed brighter than the sunHis desire for her

I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted?

Desire should be allowed to roam freely. The range is endless .

All desire, Tracy had had occasion since to think, is to some degree monstrous.

All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.

...Refusing to feel desire is the only thing more painful than failing to get what you want, and that learning not to yearn, far from preventing disappointment, ultimately guarantees it.

I will not exorcise you—I'd miss your fragrance, the soft tread of your step on the stair

Your heart desire will come, but when it comes, you desire for another, and when it comes again, you still aspire for another, that shows your level of ingratitude.

I think there are lovely sunsets in hell—and that's where my desire for you is sending me

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.

I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.

America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.