Quotes about Yearning

he wanted so much to live...

grasping after life as much as you can because of its sweet sadness and because you would be dead some day.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

The fact that you yearn for more doesn't mean you're ungrateful for what you have or that you're greedy. It means you have a higher calling. The yearning inside calls you.

sometimes wondered if it would be better to let go of the pain of wanting and settle for the calm mediocrity of the status quo.

sometimes it's the one thing we've never had, but have wanted for so long, that has the power to disappoint us the most.

I love beautiful; always have. I never saw why I should hate what I wish I had. Love it harder. Work your way closer. Clasp your hands around it tighter. Till you find a way to make it yours.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.

My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.

My life is such a contradiction. My soul yearns for holiness and then runs from the mortification necessary to attain it.

By nature, men desire the beautiful.

Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.