Quotes about Yearning

I love you not because I need you, I need you because I love you.

Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name.

It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. Now he would have given all he had or ever might have to hold her warm in his arms, both of them wrapped in one blanket, and sleep. All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

He hoped she was gazing into the future that included him. A shiver rushed down his spine, and he wasn't sure if it was longing or fear. Truth be told, it was a little of both.

We will never be completely satisfied by our achievements, skills, wealth, fame, pleasures, or possessions. Why? Because the human heart was created to need more than what is available to us in the natural realm. Only the eternal, supernatural God can fill our longings.

We are a society of disconnected people longing for connections.

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.