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Quotes About Yearning

On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.
~ Jean Rostand
Desire is possibility seeking expression.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire.
~ Jenny Holzer
One must desire something to be alive.
~ Margaret Deland
Humans are lonely creators. Humans always desire and yearn for others. Humans thirst for ambitions. When things don't go their way, they start thirsting for it even more.
~ Unknown
Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
~ Pierre Corneille
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
We don't need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.
~ Marc Jacobs
The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
~ James Russell Lowell
The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
~ Wallace Stevens
Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
It's always nice being wanted. Even if it's by the wrong person.
~ Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden
Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.
~ Rumi
Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
~ Ellen Glasgow
In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
~ Publilius Syrus
desire is a beast that must be fed!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.
~ Lisa Kleypas
It's so much better to desire than to have.
~ Anouk Aimee
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
~ Cesare Pavese
Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.
~ Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
~ Jane Smiley
All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.
~ Joan Chen
Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want.
~ Rumi