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Quotes About Yearning

It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element is lacking which would permit me to continue.
~ Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
The more I learn, the more I yearn.
~ Aaron B. Powell, Priority
There is no rural life in a countryman's dream and there is no city life in a townsman's dream! We often dream of the other shores, not our own shore!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.
~ Slavoj Zizek
That's how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)
~ Ally Condie, Matched
We want what's in this world but we also want what ain't.
~ Ron Rash, Serena
Will I ever see the mountains or am I doomed to roam the flatlands?
~ Jessica-Lynn Barbour, Willow
Existing is exhausting.I want to live - How to be
~ P.A. Bitez, Soft Tortures
Sometimes I Curse My Love Affair with Life
~ Damond Jiniya
Is it just me or am I the only person that didn't receive an invitation to the Grand Ball so many call life?
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
If we don't cherish those who stay near, what do we have? Only longing.
~ Janice Clark, The Rathbones
Desire is to ask for something in silence, without really wanting it, for having it wouldn't fill you as much as having desired it.
~ Isabella Trainini
Insofar as there shall always be a desire, there shall always be a want and there shall always be a need
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
as i sit here looking at the window, i feel broken and empty.
~ darwin araman ergina
I want to stay still and to keep moving. I want this life and another.
~ Zadie Smith
The Light yearns for the peaceful balance of the Darkness as much as Darkness seeks the Glory of the Light.
~ Solange nicole
I want my life back.-Dear Blue Sky
~ Mary Sullivan
Life is full of disparate details arbitrarily joined together by dreams, pain and yearning. I do not long for sense, but I call for emotion and imagination amidst this chaos.
~ Juhani Peltonen
Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.
~ John Milton
As one who long in populous city pent.
~ John Milton
But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd,I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.
~ John Milton
No man who has seen a woman in Pleasure Silk, or watched her dance, or heard the sound of a belled ankle or watched a woman's hair, unbound, fall to her waist can long live without the possession of such a delicious creature.
~ John Norman
When Caroline Walker fell in love with Julian English she was a little tired of him. That was in the summer of 1926, one of the most unimportant years in the history of the United States, and the year in which Caroline Walker was sure her life had reached a pinnacle of uselessness.
~ John O'Hara
Anxiety seems to be an intense desire for something, accompanied by a fear of the consequences of not receiving it.
~ John Piper