Quotes About Yearning

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

O mistress mine! where are you roaming?

He will to his Egyptian dish again.

Shall I never see a bachelor of threescore again?

O! for a horse with wings!

All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.

Except I be by Silvia in the night,There is no music in the nightingale.

Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.

Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is.

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought And with old woes new wail my dear times' waste.

Why, she would hang on him,As if increase of appetite had grownBy what it fed on.

Like one that stands upon a promontory,And spies a far-off shore where he would tread,Wishing his foot were equal with his eye.

Lady you bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.

My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.

So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.

In war, people yearn for relief from strife, leading to peace. In peace, people yearn to champion what they love, leading to war.

I said," Pat repeated, "I'd sure like to fuck you.

I would think of Victoria's domain, And in a moment I seemed to be there! But the fear of being taken again, Soon hurried me back to despair.

Great God! I'd rather beA pagan suckled in a creed outworn;So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart's core.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

Near the bolts on the door, there was a hole through which you could look to see the landscape. If you were lucky enough to get a glimpse outside without being pushed away, you could breathe a little and put your thoughts in order.

I've allowed myself to lead this little life, when inside me there was so much more.

No Water made her want to be taken, which was exciting and frightening. Crazy Horse made her want to give, which was fulfilling. She