Quotes about Yearning

ah, you always go for the ones who don't really want you

What is he aching to do? What are we all aching to do? What do we want?" She didn't know. She yawned. She was sleepy. It was too much. Nobody could tell. Nobody would ever tell. It was all over. She was eighteen and most lovely, and lost.

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion

Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop.

At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing I were a Negro, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night.

he wanted so much to live...

grasping after life as much as you can because of its sweet sadness and because you would be dead some day.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

The fact that you yearn for more doesn't mean you're ungrateful for what you have or that you're greedy. It means you have a higher calling. The yearning inside calls you.

sometimes wondered if it would be better to let go of the pain of wanting and settle for the calm mediocrity of the status quo.

sometimes it's the one thing we've never had, but have wanted for so long, that has the power to disappoint us the most.