Desire Quote by Charles Simic

“When you surrender, you live in eager anticipation of the surprise. The dual weights of yearning and despair are cast off.”

— Annette Vaillancourt

I was a dweller amid shadows grim: Till FREEDOM touched my yearning eyes, and lo! Life in a shining circle, rounding rose, As heaven…

— Gerald Massey

I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.

— Melina Marchetta

I've illustrated many children's books and I feel awfully lucky to be able to do something I love so much, and yes, to be…

— Sophie Blackall

The acute experience of great beauty readily evokes a nameless yearning for something more than earth can offer. Elegant splendor reawakens our spirit's aching…

— Thomas Dubay

“Poetry is the yearning of the soul to break free!”

— Avijeet Das

“The feelings that hurt most, the motions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are…

— Fernando Pessoa

“If i live on longer, shall i again, i wonder, yearn for these days ? The world that i once saw as bitter, now,…

— pictures of the heart Fujiwara no Kiyosuke

I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.

— Sarah Dessen

The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the…

— Aeschylus

“[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an ear straining…

— George Eliot

“As the days went by, the evolution of LIKE into LOVE was accelerated. White Fang himself began to grow aware of it, though in…

— Jack London