Quotes about Yearning

PRINCIPLE 3 Arouse in the other person an eager want.

Desire—wanting something that appears to be good for some purpose or pleasure.

A loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.

We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

And yet in Port William, as everywhere else, it was already the second decade of the twentieth century. And in some of the people of the town and the community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were someplace else.

Whatever is singing is found, awaiting the return of whatever is lost.

Another place! it's enough to grieve me — that old dream of going, of becoming a better man just by getting up and going to a better place.

I began to take for granted that I was somewhere, and somewhere that I knew, but I never quite felt that I was somewhere I wanted to be.

curiosity is another of the mistresses whose slaves decline no sacrifice.

Nguyên t?c sâu s?c nh?t trong b?n tÃ

A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a Palm tree Which far in the East alone, In the mournful silence standeth On its ridge of burning stone.