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Quotes About Yearning

I could dispense with life sooner than with your love.
~ Juliette Drouet
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
~ Khalil Gibran
Over to the jukebox I staggered for a love song to scatter my body before her.
~ Kim Mitchell
I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?
~ Dante Alighieri
He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
I don't wanna need you because I can't have you.
~ Clint Eastwood
When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
~ Taylor Swift
Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?
~ Ayn Rand
nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight
~ Lana Del Rey
What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.
~ Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.
~ Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth
She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.
~ Jean Rhys
As long as I can dream, I will dream of you.
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
Some people never say the words 'I love you', for like a child they're longing to be told.
~ Paul Simon
Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
~ Ian Mckellen
Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.
~ Amy Hempel
The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.
~ Andy Warhol
I love you. And I'm going to keep loving you even after you don't know I exist.
~ J.R. Ward
The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I was in love with the idea of being in love with a woman way before I was actually in love with one.
~ Jimmy Carr
You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
~ John Green
Love is everything. Without it, I have no use for this world. When I'm not in love with someone, I feel empty and I can't think about anything but trying to find that someone.
~ Joshua Radin