Quotes about Yearning
I sit, and moan, Like one who once had wings.
— John Keats
I could centre my Happiness in you, I cannot expect to engross your heart so entirely -- indeed if I thought you felt as much for me as I do for you at this moment I do not think I could restrain myself from seeing you again tomorrow for the delight of one embrace. But no -- I must live upon hope and Chance. In case of the worst that can happen, I shall still love you -- but what hatred shall I have for another!
— John Keats
The air I breathe in a room empty of you is unhealthy.
— John Keats
Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
— John Keats
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— John Keats
Letter home from college boy: "There are 370 boys here - I wish there were 369."
— Anonymous
Your heart is like an infinitely large hole, and only God is big enough to fill it.
— Peter Kreeft
Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The country in which I live is not my native country that lies elsewhere and it must always be the center of my longings.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half
— John Milton
Henceforth an individual solace dear; Part of my Soul I seek thee, and thee claim My other half: with that thy gentle hand Seisd mine, I yielded, and from that time see How beauty is excelld by manly grace.
— John Milton
Was I to have never parted from thy side? As good have grown there still a lifeless rib. Paradise Lost, Book IX, l. 1154
— John Milton