Quotes about Yearning

I wish you were with me, or I with you.

And I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have.

I think she thought she love him. But he got so many of us. All needing somethin'.

Like Jesus, who didn't know who his biological father was either. I have often thought it was this lack of knowledge of his earthly father that led him to his 'heavenly' one, for there is in all of us a yearning to know our own source, and no source is likely to seem too farfetched to a lonely, fatherless child.

I was by myself in this frightening place and SHE WAS NOT THERE! my heart sank. I had never felt more alone in my life, and then, just when I was on the point of dying of loneliness and lack of direction, I wailed: ;I: Oh, Grandmother, you are not here! And she said: But you are.

Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.

Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."

Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair; A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.

We do not see the divine intervention for which we yearn in our country because we think it is for us and our needs rather than an impetus for God's mission.

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child,A long ways from home,A long ways from home.