Quotes About Yearnings

I believe excellent fantasy reflects us all, and yes, it can use those myths that underpin societies, our subconscious yearnings and longings, and perhaps our barren spirituality.

I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have histories and thoughts and yearnings and hurts and misgivings and pleasures that don't belong to me.

human desires that link their destinies to our own.

Sometimes, I just wish.

His wishes surfaced like ghosts and fled into the night.

What do people want? Well, you really can't talk about wants until you talk about needs.

That is not what you want, that is what you need. You are not made out of needs, you are made out of your dreams and desires.

That is not what you want, that is what you need. You are not made out of needs, you are made out of your dreams and desires. What is it you wish and dream of?

Our true passions are selfish.

What do people want? Well, you really can't talk about wants until you talk about needs.

Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.

There were disappointments. Things you couldn't know you had wanted, or even things you were quite certain you hadn't wanted, but still, as you discovered, missed some aspect of.

A person's what they fear and what they love.

We think with our body, with its yearnings and its shrinkings and its ghostly walkings.

What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings, Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing, To fork out his copper and pocket your shilling.

Improvisation is not the expression of accident but rather of the accumulated yearnings, dreams and wisdom of our very soul.

For years her emotions lay behind a wall she had constructed: the yearnings, the desires, the disappointment, and the pain.

The unconscious mind is open terrain - no walls or barriers, for better or worse. Thoughts and feelings are free to wander, like characters leaving their books to taste life in other stories. Terrors roam, and so do yearnings. Secrets are turned out like pockets, and old memories meet new.

Dame Betka laughed without humor. You are not alone in your yearnings. That is as may be! But I am quite alone in being Hester Lajoie! I strike my own personal path through the wilderness of life, and intent to resist dissolution tooth and nail!

Sleeping, we image what awake we wish; Dogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.*

...and leave wishes to those foolish enough to make them.

Sense yearnings sap your inner peace; they are like openings in a reservoir that permit vital waters to be wasted in the desert soil of materialism.

From the beginning I've searched out those writers unafraid to stir up the emotions, who entrust me with their darkest passions, their most indestructible yearnings, and their most soul-killing doubts. I trust the great novelists to teach me how to live, how to feel, how to love and hate. I trust them to show me the dangers I will encounter on the road as I stagger on my own troubled passage through the complicated life of books that try to teach me how to die.

It is not our high purposes alone that make us moving creatures, but our humble needs and cravings.