Quotes about Yearning
What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
— Erica Jong
Love is needing to be loved.
— John Lennon
If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.
— John Donne
We love even when our love is not requited.
— Mortimer Adler
I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
— St. Augustine
O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.
— Thomas Merton
David knew what mattered most. The presence of God. He begged God for it.
— Max Lucado
WHEN OUR DEEPEST DESIRE IS NOT THE THINGS OF GOD, OR A FAVOR FROM GOD, BUT GOD HIMSELF, WE CROSS A THRESHOLD.
— Max Lucado
Once you have seen his face you will forever long to see it again.
— Max Lucado
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
— Maya Angelou
But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom. from Caged Bird
— Maya Angelou