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Quotes About Yearning

For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes.
~ Robert Herrick
Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives.
~ Rumi
There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling.
~ Rumi
I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.
~ Saint Augustine
Sadly when I want someone to hold me and tell me everything is going to be alright, I have no one. I miss you so much and I wish there was someone to love me when I am down.
~ Shane Johnson
Cause I shouldn't feel this way... Catch me I'm falling for you... and I don't know what to do.
~ Toni Gonzaga
It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.
~ William Hazlitt
Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.
~ Charlie Chaplin
I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.
~ Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary Duff), A Cinderella Story
~ Hilary Duff
He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.
~ Lisa See, Peony in Love
I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.
~ Stevie Smith, Selected Poems
When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
~ E. M. Forster
I really want to fall in love.
~ Enrique Iglesias
All love craves unity.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
I'll love you when my eyes are open, I'll love you when my eyes are gone.
~ Iggy Pop
Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the dark So soon, so soon.
~ Jean Rhys
I realize I didn't like you. I just wanted to meet someone that understood me. I didn't know that you were speaking from the diary. I had mistaken it for love.
~ Jo Yoon-hee
Feelings of worth come when a woman follows the example of the Master. Her sense of infinite worth comes from her own Christlike yearning to reach out with love, as He does.
~ Russell M. Nelson
Some things never leave a person: scent of the hair of one you love, the texture of persimmons, in your palm, the ripe weight.
~ Li-Young Lee
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
~ Lucretius
Human beings are born to experience pure love, and they never get it. They are searching to experience it from birth until death.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.
~ Oscar Wilde
O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.
~ Robert Browning