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Quotes About Yearns

inside me like a hole that can never be filled and there was Mira Roche
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I just need her man. I just fucking need her to be with me,
~ Rachel Robinson
Unrequited love is better than returned love that fails. That way I can dream.
~ Randa Abdel-Fattah
And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.
~ Raymond Carver
She said she didn't want rice. She didn't want anything anymore. Not a thing. But every once in a while she got a faraway look in her eyes and he knew she was thinking of some other place. A better place. Just once, she told him, I'd like to look out the window and see the sea.
~ Julie Otsuka
She...wanted no one—apart from men in nineteenth-century novels, which put a whole new spin on the idea of 'unattainable.
~ Kate Atkinson
Skylark Have you anything to say to me? Won't you tell me where my love can be?
~ Johnny Mercer
Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home
~ Orson Scott Card
You're the kind of man a man wants when a man wants a man.
~ David Wong
Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
~ Robert Frost
I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.
~ Amy Hempel
Ma'am, I said, I'd have liked it, having you for a ma.
~ Louis L'Amour
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn
~ John Berryman
He longed for smut, but heard little and contributed less, and his chief indecencies were solitary.
~ E.M. Forster
My writing was all about you; all I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast.
~ Franz Kafka
No one has ever been hopelessly in love with me. No, Carlos says. You always gave them hope, didn't you?
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Still, I wanted to believe; indeed I longed to; and, in the end, how much of belief comes from longing?
~ Margaret Atwood
neither for me honey nor the honey bee
~ Sappho
And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.
~ Raymond Carver
In a few years you may find a Starbucks, which will bring the town what it yearns for: prepackaged, preapproved mainstream hipness.
~ Gillian Flynn
Somewhere there must one Made for this soul, to move it.
~ William Johnson Cory
Hanan Al-Shaykh
~ she lulling
I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.
~ Amy Hempel
It is a pity that those whose good graces we long for are always dead.
~ Jules Renard