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Quotes About Yearning

I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.
~ Michel Foucault
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
~ Marcel Proust
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You're seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you're worth.
~ Haruki Murakami
Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.
~ Jonathan Carroll
Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.
~ Robert Jordan
Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened.
~ Vera Pavlova
No matter the time, carried away the wind is Better your absence Thy indifference.
~ Serge Gainsbourg
I strode toward Mr. Coffee with lust in my eyes. We'd had a thing for quite some time now Mr. Coffee and I.
~ Darynda Jones
If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day
~ Jim Croce
I mean, it is the perfect situation to really love someone to death and to want to rip their clothes off at the same time, isn't it?
~ George Michael
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
~ Alexander Woollcott
Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the most twisted logic of all time.
~ John Mayer
It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
~ Samuel Beckett
What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.
~ Émile Chartier
Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?
~ Sarah Ruhl
Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.
~ Dwight Yoakam
Every time I look into his eyes I just want to take the ice cream or whatever I've got in my hand and rub it into his face. That's how much I like him.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
To live in a place where I am not, and in a time that is either past or not yet come.
~ Heinrich von Kleist
Fantasy is so much hotter than reality most of the time.
~ Adam Lambert
Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!
~ Aldous Huxley
Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a long time, a world that no longer exists except between the covers of a book.
~ Anne Desclos
The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.
~ Milan Kundera