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Quotes About Yearning

in darkness and in hedges I sang my sour tone and all my love was howling conspicuously alone.
~ W. D. Snodgrass
Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
~ George Eliot
Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
~ Jack Vance
Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Every heart to Love will come, but like a refugee
~ Leonard Cohen
You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.
~ Leonard Woolf
I felt very awkward and out of place in school. Not popular, not attractive, not special in any way and I was longing for love and approval from someone.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one!
~ Marie Corelli
I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!
~ Maurice Sendak
The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.
~ Paulo Coelho
If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being.
~ Anzia Yezierska
Ain'tno sunshine when she's gone. It's not warm when she's away. Ain'tno sunshine when she's gone, and she's always gone too long, anytime she goes away.
~ Bill Withers
It starts with an "I" And ends with a "U" I got a feelin' Are you feelin' it too
~ Billy Currington
It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.
~ Diane de Poitiers
Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
~ Douglas Coupland
A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
~ Drew Barrymore
Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained.
~ Edward Weston
Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.
~ Brian Andreas
Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.
~ Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Is not absence death to those who love?
~ Alexander Pope
Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.
~ Angela Carter
shadows of love, inebriations of love, foretastes of love, trickles of love, but never yet the one true love.
~ Edna O'Brien