Yearning Quotes

What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach...

The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it pre...

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The o...

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in...

I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through...

The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing f...

The fairest things have fleetest end,Their scent survives their close:But the rose's scent is bitter...

Yet she resigned herself: reverently she put away in the chest of drawers her beautiful dress and ev...

It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longin...

There was no desire in him for a state or condition, no picture in his mind of the thing to be when ...

There was old sex in the room and loneliness, and expectation, of something without a shape or name....

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or "sweetness.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been ...

Alone, alone. I am alone – I ache … Yet for the first time, despite all the anguish and the reality ...

I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps outLooking, with its hooks, for something to love.

How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your ...

To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want a...

Name me no names for my disease,With uninforming breath;I tell you I am none of these,But homesick u...

We ache with the yearningthat turns half into wholeand offer no excusesfor the beauty of our souls.

Love is circumstantial we can love anyone if need be and losing the one we love is the singular cata...

Naught is there mightier than God;Yet hath He not the might to turnMy Will from willing what it will...

Why is love intensified by absence?

Grief seems to create losses within us that reach beyond our awareness--we feel as if we're missing ...

The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looki...