Quotes about Yearning
It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her.
— Jack Kerouac
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.
— Ronald Reagan
Our problem with desire is that we want too little.
— CS Lewis
Please, sir, I want some more.
— Charles Dickens
You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.
— DH Lawrence
That's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me.
— DH Lawrence
Everybody wants something.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.
— CS Lewis
I felt so thirsty for God, so embarrassed by Christianity, and so ready for something more.
— Shane Claiborne
The world is thirsty. All creation is groaning. Christianity as it is has not satisfied the souls of those who hunger for another way of life.
— Shane Claiborne