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Quotes About Yearning

There is no escape if love is not there," Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not even suspected? It was not escape that she had dreamed about, it was love.
~ Elizabeth George Speare
The most precious love is often the kind that isn't returned, and that is given freely.
~ Emily Susan Rapp
It's hard to feel desire when you don't feel desirable
~ Christine Feehan, Safe Harbor
I need you. Right now. Let me love you right here, please.
~ Abbi Glines, Fallen Too Far
It's the craziest thing, but I can't stop thinking about you.
~ Anna Godbersen, The Luxe
I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?
~ Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden
Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo
I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo
I needed him like I'd never needed anyone.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo
I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.
~ Rachel Hunter
Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
~ Alice Hoffman
You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear?
~ Jeanette Winterson
Love is needing to be loved.
~ John Lennon
I am sitting in the trenches between love and desire.' - ART like LOVE is rarely understood.
~ Laurence Gartel
If I don't love you, baby, grits ain't groceries.
~ Little Milton
I look at her wish we could go inside and make love on the couch. Dive inside each other. Take each other. Make each other. Nothing happens, though.
~ Markus Zusak
King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us.
~ Mason Cooley
I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Being in love is a very strange thing. Your thoughts constantly drift towards this other person, no matter what you're doing.
~ Pittacus Lore
Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
I love you with the passion of a drowning man for breathing air. I can't just have enough of you and having you a little would be disastrous.
~ Sandra Thomas
Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little?
~ Sylvia Plath
Next to love is the desire for love.
~ Wallace Stevens
Being hungry is like being in love: if you don't know, you're probably not.
~ Geneen Roth