Quotes About Yearning

Looking back, I wish I could bottle the stuff that made it better, but how can one bottle time?

All this time, I wasn't hungry for success, I was hungry.

I used to dream about him all the time," Sunny whispered to me. "Every night. I kept hoping the Seekers would find him; I missed him so much...When I saw him, I thought it was the old dream again.

I was wasting my time, praying for love. For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.

I want your mind. Your strength. I want to be worth your time.

My last coherent thought, as Lucas took his time kissing and touching every part of me he could reach and my body arched into his, was: oh... so this is what all the fuss is about.

Moose had no friends that year. A lot of the time a moose would feel tired and lean against other moose. Only there wouldn't be moose there and the moose would fall.

You can spend so much time wanting someone and they can have absolutely no idea.

The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.

Oh, bring again my heart's content, Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!

What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights, Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hours More tedious than the dial eightscore times! O weary reckoning!

Those lips looked tasty, especially when they said things like ' i jumped up every time someone knocked, hoping it's be you

A decade is a very long time to be away from somebody.

Sam looked at me, yellow eyes catching and holding me. "I miss being me. I miss you. All the time.

When I run, I always pretend I am running toward Nikki, and it makes me feel like I am decreasing the amount of time I have to wait until I see her again.

You have stopped the arrow of time... There's no meaning to this rhyme... Because my song will never mean as much as the one.. He once sang.. For you, yes, you.

My heart can't stop beating faster, every time I hear your name or your laughter.

Don't you know what that is? It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Then she told me all about the bad place, and said I wished I was there. She got mad, then, but I didn't mean no harm. All I wanted was to go somewheres, all I wanted was a change, I warn't particular

The timid man yearns for full value and asks for a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

Tom found himself writing BECKY in the sand with his big toe; he scratched it out, and was angry with himself for his weakness. But he wrote it again, nevertheless; he could not help it.