Quotes about Desire For Connection
A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
— Catherine of Siena
Why did he sit so near and keep his eye on her? Why did they not have done with this searching and agony? Why did they not kiss each other simply? She wished to kiss him. But all the time she went on spinning out words.
— Virginia Woolf
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
— Mother Teresa
He was told, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to see You.”
— Luke 8:20
Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half
— John Milton
God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us.
— Brennan Manning
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
— Mother Teresa
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
— St. Augustine
There is woven inside each of us a desire for something more—a craving to be part of something bigger, greater, and more profound than our relatively meaningless day-by-day existence.
— Paul David Tripp
All of us, believers and non-believers, desire some kind of fellowship and connection.
— Eric Metaxas
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
— Anonymous
He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. We look at each other. I have no rose to toss, he has no lute. But it's the same kind of hunger.
— Margaret Atwood