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Quotes About Yearning

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
~ William Ellery Channing
Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing
~ Unknown
I love him but he dosen't see that we can be!!!
~ Unknown
Give expression to the noble desires that lie in your heart.
~ Gordon B Hinckley
He who is not impatient is not in love.
~ Italian proverb
These soft nights hold me like themselves aloft and I lie without a lover.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Love is the combination of everything we have ever set our sights on. What will you set your eyes upon?
~ Dinah Maria Mulock
Love takes many forms. It is an ifinite emotion that can never fully be contained. You can not make yourself stop loving someone. You can not choose who you fall in love with, You can love many people at the same time, but most of all, you can never stop reaching for it.
~ Ashley Young
Worse than the of a best friend is knowing they are there but not being able to see them everyday.
~ Unknown
Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn
~ James Thurber
Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.
~ James Joyce
You ache for the touch of another, But you don't have a now-current lover
~ Chuck Palahniuk
So until we meet again, I am thinking of you always; I love you; I wish you were here...in my arms.
~ Unknown
Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love goes on, the love goes on, blind to laws and warnings and even to wisdom and to fears. And whatever that love is, perhaps an illusion of a new love, I want it, I can't resist it, my whole being melts in one kiss, my knowledge melts, my fears melt, my blood dances, my legs open.
~ Anais Nin
Love is a beggar who stills begs when one has given him everything
~ James Arthur Baldwin
That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Real love, I've learned, is a very, very strong form of forgiveness. I don't think people yearn for love because they hate staying home alone on Saturday night or because they dread going into restaurants alone. People want love because they want the
~ Unknown
The world is a drought when out of love
~ Brandon Boyd
I need you in front of me, saying my name, saying to me... I choose the way you are You, the way you are
~ Brandon Boyd
O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!
~ Thomas Dekker
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?
~ Eddie Vedder
Touch your lips just so I know in your eyes, love, it glows so I'm bare boned and crazy for you when you come crash into me, baby and I come into you...
~ Dave Matthews Band
Your bones have been my bedframe and your flesh has been my pillow. And I'm waiting for sleep.
~ Ani DiFranco
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
~ Pablo Neruda