Quotes about Yearning
My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?
- Shirley Chisholm
The two things we all want so desperately — glory and relationship — can coexist only with God.
- Timothy Keller
Each of us is as full of the Spirit as we really want to be.
- J. Oswald Sanders
Lord, I want to be up in my heart.
- Moby
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
- DH Lawrence
The void can only be filled with love.
- Marty Rubin
I'm extra-good at wanting things. I want things until I feel sort of sick about them. I want enough for two normal people, at least.
- Rainbow Rowell
I closed my eyes to hug him tighter and give him that elusive feeling of unconditional love and complete safety. The feeling we seek but, in this life and in this world, perhaps never quite find.
- Katherine Reay
He's exasperated. "I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!
- Stephanie Perkins
God puts every one of us here for a purpose. There's some pull on our lives that draws us toward that purpose, and the farther we go away from it, the more unhappy we are. The closer we get, the more we yearn and desire it.
- Chris Fabry
Obviously I'm missing the city life.
- Sofia Kenin
Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.
- Toni Morrison