Quotes about Yearning

You are a slave of what you need in your soul.

All temporal, partial experience of God inevitably leaves a sense of dissatisfaction behind.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.

I was a romantic and sentimental creature, with a tendency towards solitude.

Chile with the purpose of finding her lover and becoming his slave forever, believing that was the way to extinguish her thirst to submit and her hidden wish for possession, but now she doubted that she could give up those new wings beginning to sprout on her shoulders.

But beyond confusion and rage, the strongest feeling I remember having that night was frustrated desire, because I would never be able to satisfy my need to run my hands over Rosa's body, to penetrate her secrets, to release the green fountain of her hair and plunge into its deepest waters.

But beyond confusion and rage, the strongest feeling I remember having that night was frustrated desire, because I would never be able to satisfy my need to run my hands over Rosa's body, to penetrate her secrets, to release the green fountain of her hair and plunge into its deepest waters.

Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed.

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?

The two things we all want so desperately — glory and relationship — can coexist only with God.

Each of us is as full of the Spirit as we really want to be.

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.