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Quotes About Yearning

I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney
I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.
~ Nathaniel Parker Willis
Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love.
~ Rumi
Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere love a pale approximation of bittersweet euphoria.
~ Sandra Boynton
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away
~ Sappho
I barely knew I had skin before I met you.
~ Sarah Waters
What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love?
~ Sylvia Plath
One night of love don't make up for six nights alone. But I'd rather have one than none Lord, cause I'm flesh and bone.
~ Waylon Jennings
I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.
~ Wilbur Smith
Next to me, Saiman smiled. "We all want what we can't have, Kate. I want you, you want love, and he wants to break my neck.
~ Ilona Andrews
I wonder love can have already set In dreams, when we've not met More times than I can number on one hand.
~ Philip Larkin
I would like to be Jupiter, and lie down in the firmament and make love to everybody.
~ Roberto Benigni
his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me was far more intimate than copping a feel could ever be.
~ Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.
~ Anna Brownell Jameson
O tender yearning, sweet hoping! The golden time of first love! The eye sees the open heaven, The heart is intoxicated with bliss; O that the beautiful time of young love Could remain green forever.
~ Friedrich Schiller
How I'd love, love, love, to dance with my Father again.
~ Luther Vandross
Sometimes we have only ten minutes to be with the love of our life and thousands of hours to spend thinking about them.
~ Paulo Coelho
Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.
~ Samuel Beckett
And you can't help but worry for them, love them, want for them - those who go on down the close, foetid galleries of time and space without you.
~ Tim Winton
Somewhere there must one Made for this soul, to move it.
~ William Johnson Cory
Love runs away from those chasing her, and those who run away, she throws herself on his neck.
~ William Shakespeare
I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip
~ William Shakespeare
But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.
~ John Updike, Rabbit, Run
Perhaps a great love is never returned.
~ Dag Hammarskjold