Quotes about Yearning

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world

Unlived life is a destructive, irresistible force that works softly but inexorably.

You are a slave of what you need in your soul.

All temporal, partial experience of God inevitably leaves a sense of dissatisfaction behind.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.

I was a romantic and sentimental creature, with a tendency towards solitude.

Chile with the purpose of finding her lover and becoming his slave forever, believing that was the way to extinguish her thirst to submit and her hidden wish for possession, but now she doubted that she could give up those new wings beginning to sprout on her shoulders.

But beyond confusion and rage, the strongest feeling I remember having that night was frustrated desire, because I would never be able to satisfy my need to run my hands over Rosa's body, to penetrate her secrets, to release the green fountain of her hair and plunge into its deepest waters.

But beyond confusion and rage, the strongest feeling I remember having that night was frustrated desire, because I would never be able to satisfy my need to run my hands over Rosa's body, to penetrate her secrets, to release the green fountain of her hair and plunge into its deepest waters.

Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed.