Quotes about Yearning
More of anything other than God will never fill that longing for fulfillment He has placed within you and me.
— James MacDonald
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
— St. Augustine
Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Only I sigh for thy repose.
— John Wesley
Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.
— GK Chesterton
When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.
— Marilyn Monroe
I'm the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream.
— Marilyn Monroe
A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
— George Eliot
Mother, you had me, but I never had you.
— John Lennon
For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.
— CS Lewis
The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.
— CS Lewis
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
— William Hazlitt
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
— Peter Kreeft