Deep Yearning Quotes

Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love.

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.

Where's that higher love I keep thinking of?

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

What is a secret wish?" "It is what you want but cannot ask.

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.

O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different things, but God is the one we really long for. His presence brings satisfaction; his absence brings thirst and longing.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

Desire is craving enough to sacrifice for

In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner.

The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.

Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.

The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still.

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

Love, always love. Perhaps that’s what we’re all looking for.

What I mean by "An Unspoken Hunger." It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by material things. It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by the constant denial.

What I really want, and what I never get - is to be appreciated.

No craving void left aching in the soul.