Quotes About Yearnings

They were imbued with few other desires.

i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires.

Often secret desires as well as abilities surface in our dreams.

We all have our dreams.

We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.

For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.

Sexuality with all its attendant yearnings and pains, jealousies and taboos, is the most disturbing impulse humans have.

Sadly, most women don't understand that Christ is the only one who can ultimately satisfy the deepest yearnings of a woman's heart. So they become disillusioned when their husbands don't meet all of their needs, or they go through a series of revolving-door relationships, looking for a man who will.

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Wishes cannot be summoned up or kept away at will. They come from deeper within us than good or bad intentions. And they spring up unannounced.

In the midst of my spleen and my yearnings for the past, and despite these ridiculous cramped circumstances I find myself in, in this vile room in this foul apartment-block, I sometimes experience, as at this moment, bursts of confidence and strength. And I become aware of the thought darting up in me that it is true, I am immeasurably more powerful a writer than any of those I know. But in conditions such as the ones I have presently to endure I may have to kowtow to them.

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.

She was one of those languid women, made of dark honey, smooth and sweet, and terribly sticky, who take control of a room with a syrupy gesture, a toss of the hair, a single slow whiplash of the eyes — and all the while remain as still as the centre of a hurricane, apparently unaware of the force of gravity by which they irresistibly attract themselves the yearnings and the souls of both men and women.

We survivors often struggle with managing our understandable but unrealistic yearnings to receive permanent unconditional love from a friend or partner.