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Quotes About Yearning

Love wants everything without condition, love has no law.
~ Pierre de Ronsard
Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher's regular, what normal woman wants affection?
~ Samuel Beckett
Nothing is sadder than love left unheard.
~ Neil Diamond
Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.
~ Plato
What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?
~ Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.
~ Dorothy Parker
The heart wants who the heart wants. We can't help that.
~ Abbi Glines, The Vincent Boys
Tiffany and I are great friends, and I appreciate all that she is doing for me now. But she is not you. I still love you, Nikki. And you can't control or alter true love.
~ Matthew Quick
I fell in love with you again; While you were away - Jack Salmon
~ Alice Sebold
The scars of your love remind me of us they keep me thinking that we almost had it all the scars of your love they leave me breathless I can't help feeling we could have had it all
~ Adele
Soul yearns to return home to God. Home to God means the area of supreme divine love that has no conditions attached to it: unconditional love.
~ Harold Klemp
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
~ Marcel Proust
We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
~ Philip Yancey
I'm dominated by Love, By my passion of love for Love
~ Rumi
What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland, such is my considered opinion, this evening.
~ Samuel Beckett
I love you. Still not the right word, but i know you want to hear it.
~ Sylvia Day
It seems like everywhere I go I can't get real love.
~ Lil' Kim
Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars!
~ Louis Untermeyer
I can do nothing but think of you... What have you done to me? Can't you remove the spell you have cast over me?
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
I'm searching for a real love.
~ Mary J. Blige
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.
~ Khalil Gibran
In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?
~ Cornelia Funke
I'll see you later, he says, and as he does, he runs his finger briefly over my wrist. It passes over me like air, and makes me shiver like a kiss.
~ David Levithan
I wanted to escape from love, but didn't know how.
~ Ding Ling