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Quotes About Yearning

When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Love is a peculiar thing.
~ Georg Buchner
[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.
~ Gloria Steinem
Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I do love ponies. Wish I could eat one right now.
~ James Dashner
Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights.
~ Jane Kenyon
I wondered where he was now whether I would ever hear him again. Whether someone would love him, someday show him what beauty mean't.
~ Janet Fitch
Inspiration comes from everywhere always. But it's strongest in love and in its absence.
~ Jason Reeves
How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
~ Jim Harrison
When I died last, and, Dear, I die As often as from thee I go Though it be but an hour ago, And lovers' hours be full eternity.
~ John Donne
I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born.
~ John Donne
An ideal's love-fraught, imperious call That bides the spheres become articulate.
~ Josephine Preston Peabody
That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.
~ June Jordan
Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
~ Kate DiCamillo
Oh, yes, I love sleepless nights.
~ Larry Robinson
Without love in a dream it will never come true
~ Robert Hunter
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love.
~ Robert Palmer
Those who don't feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of springwater or take in sunset like a supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep.
~ Rumi
You fill yourself with the sharp pain of love, rather than its fulfillment.
~ Rumi
Wings of Love long only to fly away from all directions.
~ Rumi
My longing for you keeps me in this moment My passion gives me courage
~ Rumi
I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin. I want.
~ Sara Gruen
All comics want to be musicians. There's a part of me that wants to be a serious musician. I love songs about heartache and heartbreak.
~ Sarah Silverman
How peaceful life would be without love. How safe, how tranquil and how dull.
~ Sean Connery