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Quotes About Yearning

I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
~ Franz Kafka
it's like a squid in love with the sky.
~ Matthew Tobin Anderson
I love my poor earth because I have seen no other.
~ Osip Mandelstam
Permit me voyage, love, into your hands.
~ Hart Crane
Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.
~ James Ellroy
I Cannot Exist Without You. I Am Forgetful Of Everything But Seeing You Again.
~ John Keats
Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.
~ Sappho
The love withheld is always the love we long for most.
~ Susanna Tamaro
Everybody's looking for love, and you want to love somebody and be loved in return.
~ Jill Scott
You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.
~ Richard Siken
Every love outside of HIS love, is pain.
~ Rumi
To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
~ Vikram Seth
You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.
~ Gaston Leroux
Love is why I came here in the first place.
~ John Denver
Learn that there is no cure for desire, no cure for the love of reward, no cure for the misery of longing, save in the fixing of the sight and hearing on that which is invisible and soundless.
~ Mabel Collins
In this new era of social media the rules of the road have changed significantly, yet the basic yearning for true connectivity and love have not.
~ Matthew Hussey
My love, i would like even more; to be an ocean if you are the wave; to be a wave, if you are the ocean.
~ Nicolas Guillen
Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
~ Philip James Bailey
Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.
~ Plato
Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.
~ Veronica Roth, Divergent
Loving you forever can't be wrong. Even though you're not here, can't move on
~ Lana Del Rey
He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway
~ Alice Sebold
Most souls labor under a self imposed curse of desiring but never truly giving themselves over to love.
~ Michael Xavier
Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.
~ Mignon McLaughlin