Quotes about Yearning
Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!
- Aldous Huxley
Whenever someone comes in from outside, with the wind in their clothes and the cold on their cheeks, I feel like burying my head under the blankets to keep from thinking, "When will we be allowed to breathe fresh air again?
- Anne Frank
Now I live only for Peter
- Anne Frank
For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.
- Anne Lamott
And did you get what you wanted from this life even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.
- Anne Lamott
Everyone wants something that they can't possibly have. And if they could have it, they'd discover that they didn't really want it all along.
- Seth Godin
I want to be free Michael, just for once in my whole life I want to be free" "You are free. You just don't know it yet
- Francine Rivers
He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life.
- Milan Kundera
I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.
- John Keats
The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
- John Ortberg
Forlorn! the very word is like a bellTo toll me back from thee to my sole self!
- John Keats
I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday...
- John Mayer