Quotes about Yearning
I'm bankrupt without love.
- Eugene Peterson
But having gotten what we had always wanted, we find we have not gotten what we wanted at all. We are less fulfilled than ever.
- Eugene Peterson
But you never got hungry for me. You continued to ignore me." GOD'S Decree.
- Eugene Peterson
But you never got thirsty for me. You ignored me." GOD'S Decree.
- Eugene Peterson
Would that I were under the cliffs, in the secrethiding-places of the rocks,that Zeus might change me to a winged bird.
- Euripides
When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was - and that my real parents were going to come get me.
- Gloria Steinem
Best not to tiptoe around what you're yearning for, eyeing it, longing for it . . . or you'll miss your life ahead, it read.
- Beverly Lewis
Everyone has a dream deep in their heart, which is a center of what they want to do. If they had all the money, and they had the time and they were guaranteed that they'd be successful, that dream is what they would love to do.
- Bruce Wilkinson
Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
- Khalil Gibran
Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
- Ian Mckellen
Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.
- Ernest Hemingway