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Quotes About Yearning

You don't have to be sad to miss someone and wish they were still in your life.
~ Megan Hart
That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.
~ William S. Burroughs
I don't want you to cook my bread, I don't want you to make my bed. I don't want you to because I'm sad and blue, I just want to make love to you.
~ Willie Dixon
I want you, I need you, but there ain't no way I'm EVER gonna love you. Now don't be sad, cause two out of three ain't bad.
~ Meat Loaf
This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
~ Erica Jong
The tears of my eyes watered your heart but failed to evoke a response from the barren grounds of what beats in you. They will still come and I will welcome them because they contain you.
~ Faraaz Kazi
I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost...but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth other poets. I want someone to mouth me.
~ Sylvia Plath
It is not, Dear, because I am alone, For I am lonelier when the rest are near, But that my place against your heart has grown Too dear to dream of when you are not here.
~ E. Nesbit
Where were you then? Who else was there? Saying what? Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when I am sad and feel you are far away?
~ Pablo Neruda
A sob caught in my chest. I didn't even know what a gray was, other than a drab color. All I knew was that I was hungry all the time. And I knew, deep down, that it wasn't just for food.
~ Michelle Rowen, Dark Kiss
loveliness is infernally sad.
~ Virginia Woolf
It shouldn't make you sad to know you're loved, Grayson." But it did. It made him sad, and panicked, and for just a moment, wishful.
~ Nora Roberts
I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn't point to.
~ Daniel Handler
I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.
~ Lyndsy Fonseca
I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did.
~ Lisa Unger
Darling, even raindrops try to wipe my teardrops but your thoughts haul out more tears from my liquid eyes and then teardrops replace raindrops...
~ Abhishek Rath
She walked away too far for me to call... and for her to hear my voice.
~ Faraaz Kazi
For who would live if life held no allurements?
~ Lewis Howard Latimer
I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.
~ David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
It is only too clear that man is not at home within this universe, and yet that he is not good enough to deserve a better.
~ Perry Miller
There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.
~ Thomas Carlyle
For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.
~ Homer
Mine is a quest, for a mouthful of skies.!
~ Deejay Kapil
Are you in any pain? (Ariana Skyee)Only my heart. (Cal Remus)
~ Siobhan Davis, True Calling