Quotes about Yearning

Ah! ah! wherefore didst thou not look at me? If thou hadst looked at me thou hadst loved me. Well I know that thou wouldst have loved me, and the mystery of Love is greater than the mystery of Death.

My own personality has become a burden to me. I want to escape, to go away, to forget.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky

I wish I could love," cried Dorian Gray with a deep note of pathos in his voice. "But I seem to have lost the passion and forgotten the desire. I am too much concentrated on myself. My own personality has become a burden to me.

PRINCIPLE 3 Arouse in the other person an eager want.

Desire—wanting something that appears to be good for some purpose or pleasure.

A loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.

We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

And yet in Port William, as everywhere else, it was already the second decade of the twentieth century. And in some of the people of the town and the community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were someplace else.

Whatever is singing is found, awaiting the return of whatever is lost.

Another place! it's enough to grieve me — that old dream of going, of becoming a better man just by getting up and going to a better place.