Quotes about Yearning

The Soul's Upward Yearning by Fr. Robert Spitzer, the intergalactically smart Jesuit who once served as president of Gonzaga University and who now directs the Magis Center on matters of faith, reason, and science,

It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past.

Desire grows by what it feeds on.

Dreams don't often come true, do they? Wouldn't it be nice if they did?

If only she were a boy, speeding in khaki by Carol's side to the western front! She had wished that in a burst of romance when Jem had gone, without perhaps, meaning it. She meant it now. There were moments when waiting at home, in safety and comfort, seemed an unendurable thing.

but youth yearned to youth.

It's hard enough now, so I won't make it any harder. I want to go out so much—everything seems to be calling to me, 'Anne, Anne, come out to us. Anne, Anne, we want a playmate'—but it's better not. There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there?

We people aren't too different from the cows, are we? Never content with what we have, always leaning through the fence in search of more.

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

No one has yet believed in God and the kingdom of God, no one has yet heard about the realm of the resurrected, and not been homesick from that hour, waiting and looking forward joyfully to being released from bodily existence.