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Quotes About Yearning

Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.
~ Hafez
I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.
~ Ann Aguirre, Doubleblind
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.
~ Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
I pretended indifference…even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond.
~ Louise Gluck
I will be free, no lover's kiss to bind me to earth, no bliss of love to counteract actual bliss.
~ Hilda Doolittle
Give me the death of my soul. Intoxicate me with self-love.
~ Austin Osman Spare
Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love?
~ Matsuo Basho
Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.
~ Nicholas Sparks
As for love . . . no, having once written that word I can write nothing more.
~ Osamu Dazai
I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What's the furthest corner? Because that's where I want to be, alone with the only thing that I love.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Not loving is but a long dying.
~ Emperor Wu of Han
Love is an angel disguised as lust.
~ Patti Smith
Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
~ Plato
When I look into your eyes I still get weak And when Im this close to you I just cant speak And its hard to keep my hands to myself When I know I could never love anybody else
~ Gary Allan
In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.
~ Henri Lefebvre
Love is the sweetest pain inside.
~ Tarkan
What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
~ Vikram Seth, An Equal Music
My sole occupation is love.
~ John of the Cross
Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves.
~ Milan Kundera
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
~ Gaston Bachelard
The only difference between you and a dream is I haven't woken up with you
~ johnj geddes
I think there are lovely sunsets in hell—and that's where my desire for you is sending me
~ johnj geddes