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Quotes About Yearning

The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth
~ Rabindranath Tagore
and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree
~ Tori Amos
Of course, among the confused motives that spurred me toward being a writer was also the desire to look, to be above the trees and rooftops, beyond the Malaysian horizon that circumscribed my life.
~ Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
~ Carson McCullers
Where were you when I undressed and told the tales of my day?Where were youwhenI was silent with God in prandial pray?Where were youwhen I recited love poems as I lay?Where were you?
~ Kamand Kojouri
Boredom: the desire for desires.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
~ Nadine Gordimer
The world is divided between peasants and kings, but the truth is everybody's looking for the same thing.
~ Eyedea
I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else.
~ Fernando Pessoa
In fact, his adult brain acted like his adolescent brain used to. It stopped functioning. All it wanted to do was wrap itself around the owner of that scent and purr. The cat in him wanted to stretch out his body and rub his face into that scent. He'd been right. She was here.
~ Shelly Laurenston
The only thing that can hurt me now is the thought of never knowing this feeling again. To never be able to touch you this way again...
~ Shelly Thacker
I would be anyone if only I could be with you.
~ Shelly Thacker
As he looked at her, she felt that flood of restlessness that she now knew was called desire.
~ Shelly Thacker
He had won. He could release her at any time. But her lips... those soft, sweet petals were parting tremulously at the touch of his tongue, and she was granting him entry to the warmth of her mouth. He thrust boldly inside, wanting but one taste of her. Only one.
~ Shelly Thacker
I've tried to deny it even to myself... My heart and soul are filled with you.
~ Shelly Thacker
She tilted her head back with a breathless moan, whispering his name, "Saxon." Then three more words tumbled from her lips in an aching, husky plea. "Do not stop.
~ Shelly Thacker
She frowned at him. "Not every man thinks constantly of... of..." Darach grinned. "Aye, they do, demoiselle. Every man, from the time he is about ten until the day he dies, thinks frequently of that.
~ Shelly Thacker
I have been in love with no one, and never shall", she whispered, "unless it should be with you.
~ Sheridan Le Fanu
I have never been in love with no one, and never shall," she whispered, "unless it should be with you.
~ Sheridan Le Fanu
Jamás me he enamorado de nadie, y jamás me enamoraré —susurró—; a menos que sea de ti.
~ Sheridan LeFanu
Nocturne Midnight. The moon has set, and the Pleiades. The hours pass and pass, yet still I lie alone. Sappho
~ Sherod Santos
It had been so long since she had felt the touch of a man. Too long. She had almost forgotten that ripe, heavy throb of attraction and desire that could instantly drug her body and mind more thoroughly than any hard liquor.
~ Sherri L. King
You always want what you cant have
~ Sherry Argov
Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn't know my name and barely knew my face. - Leo
~ Sherry Thomas