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Quotes About Yearning

Yossarian was in love with the maid in the lime-colored panties because she seemed to be the only woman left he could make love to without falling in love with.
~ Joseph Heller
I have a weakness for fresh eggs.
~ Joseph Heller
My fish dream is a sex dream.
~ Joseph Heller
Mindenki arra tanított bennünket, hogy magasrend? dolgok után vágyakozzunk.
~ Joseph Heller
I yearn for you tragically.
~ Joseph Heller
Polish sausage is going for peanuts in Cracow,' Milo informed him. 'polish sausage', sighed the general nostalgically. 'You know, I'd give just about anything for a good hunk of Polish sausage. Just about anything.
~ Joseph Heller
your frustration is due to unfulfilled desire.
~ Joseph Murphy
When we mourn those who die young – those who have been robbed of time – we weep for lost joys. We weep for opportunities and pleasure we ourselves have never known. We feel sure that somehow that young body would have known the yearning delight for which we searched in vain all our lives. We believe that the untried soul, trapped in its young prison, might have flown free and known the joy that we still seek.
~ Josephine Hart
Fly me up to where you are beyond the distant star. I wish upon tonight to see you smile, if only for a while to know you're there. A breath away's not far to where you are.
~ Josh Groban
More than anything I wish he were here with me. A relationship is an accumulation of shared history, he'd said to me once. And here I was making history without him. It's lonely. And I can't wait to go home. Parts of me are showing through my Aqua, and I'm having a hard time keeping them separate.
~ Josh Kilmer-Purcell
They were like two inviolable spheres touching at a fine point in their curves, touching but failing to penetrate, failing to breathe the other's air.
~ Joshua Ferris
In Lincoln's middle years, a loud insistence on his own woe evolved into a quiet, disciplined yearning. He yoked his feelings to a style of severe self-control, articulating a melancholy that was, more than anything, philosophical. He saw the world as a sad, difficult place from which he expected considerable suffering.
~ Joshua Wolf Shenk
Vampire Willow: Bored now.
~ Joss Whedon
and this ache this trembling ache haunts me endlessly like you.
~ Joy Harjo
My heart is taken by you and these mornings since I am a horse running towards a cracked sky where there are countless dawns breaking simultaneously. There are two moons on the horizon and for you I have broken loose.
~ Joy Harjo
We get frantic in our loving. The distance between Santa Fe and Albuquerque shifts and changes. It is moments; it is years. I am next to you in skin and blood and then I am not. I tremble and grasp at the edges of myself; I let go into you.
~ Joy Harjo
I was a star falling from the night sky I needed you to catch me I was a rainbow lifting from a dark cloud I needed you to see me You keep your eyes to the ground
~ Joy Harjo
There is a field of talking blood that I have not been able to reach, not even with knives, not yet.
~ Joy Harjo
How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas our greatest happinesses spring from such longings-being in love with one who is oblivious of you.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
It feels good, honey, but it isn't love.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Since thirteen, she'd been preparing. She wasn't beautiful like these Bayhead Harbor girls, but it was surprising how men sometimes looked at her. More it was older men rather than guys her age, for some reason. […] There were guys - older guys - she'd yearned for so frankly you could see it in her face.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The things that link us deepest, we can't feel. Except if they're taken from us.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
In the subway the trains move so swiftly you can never catch your breath. Outside the grimy window that's a reflecting surface like a mirror mostly there are the rushing tunnel walls, that slow as the train slows for a station, and the doors open with a pneumatic hiss like the sigh of a great ugly beast, and passengers lurch off, and new passengers lurch on, and I lift my eyes hopeful and yearning Who will be my destiny? Which one of you?
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The Bog Kingdom. Bidding him enter! Ah, enter! There, all wishes are fulfilled. The more forbidden, the more delicious.
~ Joyce Carol Oates