Quotes about Yearning

I must teach you to long for something better...For my uncontrollable longings for this man, Lord --- Your strength.

It is natural indeed. However it's not the only thing God has in mind for us. We are not meant to live merely by what is natural. We need to learn to live by the supernatural. Ordinary fare will not fill the emptiness in our hearts...

But the tender grace of a day that is deadWill never come back to me.

Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.

Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.

Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.

Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.

Soon I will sleep. What shall I dream of, my love? I will dream of you, of course. And I will dream for a place for us to be, a sanctuary where hearts will never break again. This is my dream, my heart. Never forget that there is no end to us, as there can be no end to love. Love must last forever, or why else would there be love? Until then, I will dream.

Nichelle staring at Jack.

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

Far as we aim our signs to reach, Far as we often make them reach, Across the soul-from-soul abyss, There is an aeon-limit set Beyond which they are doomed to miss. Two souls may be too widely met. That sad-with-distance river beach With mortal longing may beseech; It cannot speak as far as this.