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Quotes About Yearning

Hunting hawks do not belong in cages, no matter how much a man covets their grace, no matter how golden the bars. They are far more beautiful soaring free. Heartbreakingly beautiful.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Wszystko, co czu?am, to g?ód. Straszny g?ód, który mog?abym nazwa? brakiem, potrzeb?, bezsilno?ci?, frustracj?, pustk?; prze?ladowa? mnie, z?era?, a wkrótce mia? ?ar?ocznie po?kn??.
~ Unknown
Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
~ Unknown
There was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can see.
~ Unknown
For there was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can see.
~ Unknown
Daphnis is beautiful, yes, but so are the flowers. His pipe sends forth beautiful sounds, yes, but so do the nightingales. But no words come to me about those things. I wish that I could be his pipe so he could breathe into me all day. — - Longus, Daphnis and Chloe
~ Unknown
I'm never satisfied Honey my appetite Is keeping me up at night I'm going crazy for more of your love I need you all the time You bring me back to life I'm going crazy for more of your love
~ Unknown
I wake up in bed alone. The silence in my room reminds me of the emptiness in my heart. I failed at love--again. Except this time, it wasn't just me. I am haunted by the inescapable thought that I let down my beautiful babies, Max and Emme. I wanted so badly for things to have turned out differently.
~ Unknown
I am yours," he whispered. "I live to hold you, Risa. I breathe to touch you.
~ Lora Leigh
What am I going to do with you? I have suggestions, but this might not be the place for them.
~ Lora Leigh
The one thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives bottled up inside their houses doing the things they hate.
~ Unknown
What's the furthest corner? Because that's where I want to be, alone with the only thing that I love.
~ Unknown
Never let me lose the marvel of your statue eyes or the accent that by night the solitary rose of your breath places on my cheek.
~ Unknown
I am ashamed to tell you how much I should like to hear from you, because you will suspect that I only want a supplement to the Times, or a later edition of the Echo.
~ Lord Acton
Absence - that common cure of love.
~ Lord Byron
By day or night, in weal or woe, That heart, no longer free, Must bear the love it cannot show, And silent ache for thee.
~ Lord Byron
none are left to please when none are left to love.
~ Lord Byron
Sigh to the stars, as wolves howl to the moon...
~ Lord Byron
I want a hero: an uncommon want
~ Lord Byron
I could love anything on Earth that appeared to wish it.
~ Lord Byron
You consume me I don't even fight Oh, I feel intoxicated... But beware I bite.
~ Unknown
He'd never felt more loved or wanted than when he was with Bess. Had never felt more important or cherished than when in her arms. Was it wrong to want her on every human level? Not wrong, perhaps, but not right, either....
~ Unknown
Our brains dream lost ancient dreams as well as throw ropes in the air as though to catch what is uncatchable – the future.
~ Loren Eiseley