#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

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them. ↗

— Rod Taylor

#artist #begging #beside #complete #day

But the walls of my resolve mortared with stubbornness have been breached by circumstances I cannot handle alone. ↗

— Susie Clevenger

#need #poetry #strength #yearning #dreams

I don’t know what’s in the box, but I love it. Unopened gifts contain hope.
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— Jarod Kintz

#hope #hopeful #hoping #imagination #imagine

I want your most vital organ. I want it to be mine. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#heart #jamie-weise #love #love-story #lovers

I looked for that which is not, nor can be, And hope deferred made my heart sick, in truth; But years must pass before a hope of youth Is resigned utterly. I watched and waited with a steadfast will: And, tho' the object seemed to fly away That I so longed for, ever, day by day, I watched and waited still. Sometimes I said,-'This thing shall be no more; My expectation wearies, and shall cease; I will resign it now, and be at peace.'- Yet never gave it o'er. Sometimes I said,-'It is an empty name I long for; to a name why should I give The peace of all the days I have to live?'- Yet gave it all the same. Alas! thou foolish one,- alike unfit For healthy joy and salutary pain, Thou knowest the chase useless, and again Turnest to follow it. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#love #poetry #yearning #love

I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#yearning #love

The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one’s grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#beautiful #beautiful-moments #beauty #holding-on #life

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning. ↗

— Lillian Gish

#happy #happy life #learning #life #spent

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

#also #become #childhood #come #comfortable