Quotes about Yearning
And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?
- John Updike
Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!
- JRR Tolkien
A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.
- CS Lewis
Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again
- Ronald Reagan
It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
- CS Lewis
When the answer to all my dreams is as close as a touch away, why am I here holding back what I'm trying to say?
- Clay Aiken
Give me the chance to love you...Cause you are on my mind. I wanna know you feel it. What do you see when you close your eyes? You are on my mind.
- Cody Simpson
It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
- Mark Twain
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
- Mark Twain
Before you can cry to God and seek him God must come to you and must have found you
- Martin Luther
The vanity and insatiability of the human heart are unspeakable. What a man has does not please him; what he does not have, that he yearns for.
- Martin Luther
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost