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Quotes About Yearning

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
~ John Berger
The world needs more love at first sight.
~ Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
I wonder what the difference is between love and lust.
~ Rob Payne
My heart aches completely, every hour, every day, and only when I'm with you does the pain go away.
~ Ewan McGregor
I don't want to unlove you because I love you.
~ Piolo Pascual
Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner.
~ Eric Berne
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
The hardest thing about being an outcast isn't the love you don't receive. It's the love you long to give that nobody wants.
~ Jodee Blanco
You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!
~ Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension
~ Jacques Lacan
You ever love somebody so much You can barely breathe When you're with them
~ Eminem
Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day.
~ Richard Crashaw
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Sometimes I wish that I was a bong hit, you'd let me in and you would love every minute.
~ John Mayer
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
~ William Shakespeare
That I am your heart's secret fills me with song. I wish I could sing of you here in my cage. You are my heart's hidden poem. I reread you, memorize you every moment we're apart.
~ Laura Whitcomb
You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.
~ Michael Marshall Smith
Oh heck yeah, I totally would love to have a Phantom Dennis in real life.
~ Charisma Carpenter
Don't fall in love with someone you can live with, fall in love with someone you can't live without.
~ Jeffree Star
For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
It is unbearably painful for the soul to love silently.
~ Anna Akhmatova
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
~ Nancy Mitford
It's a Crime for the Slave to Love her Bonds.
~ Ghada al-Samman
Do you believe in love after last sight?
~ Kami Garcia