#yearning

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it? ↗

— James Patterson

#unrequited-love #yearning #experience

Nondum amabam, et amare amabam ↗

— St. Augustine of Hippo

#loneliness #longing #love #yearning #love

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#waiting #yearning #faith

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam. ↗

— Debra Winger

#age #appropriate #find #hope #i

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#arouses #aspirations #because #completely #detach

I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#i #someday #these #yearning

I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#ago #am #army #declared #had

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#desire #even #had #i #loss

For feverish mornings after he left, she lay awake in that guest room in their house, in the rumples of the sheet he had slept in. She would get him on every turn: his aftershave lingering on the sides of the pillow that sometimes caught her, waking up from her dreams of him, in nuclear nights, his gaze: drenching her like water drops on burning rocks. She herself didn’t have any smell. He had to really lean in the first time to make out the attar amidst the freckles on her neck. And then there would be at least two, never only one: Jasmine and that other thing that he could never place- a smell that was between imitation pearls and the insides of a Durga Puja afternoon. On some days even in Simla, this she, would waft in by his collars nonchalantly.’ ('Left from Dhakeshwari') ↗

— Kunal Sen

#dreams

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or "sweetness. ↗

— Marion Woodman

#food #longing #love #sweetness #sweets