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Quotes About Yearning

I would fall in love with you if you would beat these people out of me.
~ Buddy Wakefield
Because we don't have much time together, I will give you as much love in a year as I could give you in a lifetime.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.
~ Michael Bolton
Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.
~ Michael Cunningham
I'll walk forever with stories inside me that the people I love the most can never hear.
~ Michelle Hodkin
Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
~ Milan Kundera
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.
~ Rumi
The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves.
~ Ryan Gosling
You know how it feels when you're in love with somebody and you long to be with that person? God wants us to feel that way about Him.
~ Stormie Omartian
O love, how did you get here?
~ Sylvia Plath
Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always. Always.
~ Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and for ever, I missed love's everywhere Small presence, thousand-guised.
~ Kathleen Raine
We are all children searching for love.
~ Leonard Nimoy
In love there is but little rest.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.
~ Graham Greene
I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.
~ Hanif Kureishi
I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
~ Beatrice Wood
I'm possessed by love - but isn't everybody?
~ Freddie Mercury
You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
~ Franz Kafka
There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.
~ Henry Rollins
I'm in love with the person in the sandwich centre. If she didn't exist I'd have to invent her.
~ Ian Dury
Drowning in the sea of love Where everyone would love to drown.
~ Stevie Nicks
Sometimes it's necessary to believe in love, even if it doesn't exist.
~ Rosario Ferré