Quotes about Yearning

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.

The more we pray, the more we sense our need to pray. And the more we sense a need to pray, the more we want to pray.

Day after day goes by, and God keeps looking, looking....Doesn't anyone want to call out for his blessing? Upon whom can he pour his grace? Isn't anyone interested?

Day after day goes by, and God keeps looking, looking....Doesn't anyone want to call out for his blessing? Upon whom can he pour his grace? Isn't anyone interested?

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

Western wind, when will thou blow, The small rain down can rain? Christ, if my love were in my arms And I in my bed again!

For too long I had existed, not really going anywhere and not standing still. I just lived, always in search of something that seemed just out of my range of vision.

in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes

in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes

Can't repeat the past? he cried incredulously. Why of course you can! He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.