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Quotes About Yearning

Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
~ Iggy Pop
... nothing, of course, is ever so strange as love to the one who is not a lover.
~ J. E. Buckrose
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions
~ Jane Austen
I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have always been the lover - never the beloved - and I have spent much of my life waiting for trains, planes, boats, footsteps, doorbells, letters, telephones, snow, rain, thunder.
~ John Cheever
Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.
~ John Galsworthy
I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again... The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.
~ Jonathan Lethem
This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
And Honey, I miss you and I'm being good. And I'd love to be with you if only I could.
~ Bobby Goldsboro
Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.
~ Charlotte Bronte
I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.
~ Daniel Bruhl
I would like to have a second chance at my first love.
~ Douglas William Jerrold
Wilbur didn't want food, he wanted love.
~ E. B. White
You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
~ Bram Stoker
I'm not at ease with the word "love."
~ David Bowie
The mind can't explain it, and you can't make it go away. It's called love.
~ Lois Lowry
If time stood still, and we could choose the time, the best time, then love without pain would be all I know.
~ Luke Davies
My heart… It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it's trying to escape because it doesn't belong to me any more. It belongs to you.
~ Neil Gaiman
All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.
~ Nicole Krauss
After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness
~ Nicole Krauss
I don't like you, Park. Sometimes I think I live for you
~ Rainbow Rowell
Tell me we're dead and I'll love you even more.
~ Richard Siken
Love in my heart is a cry forever Lost as the swallow's flight, Seeking for you and never, never Stilled by the stars at night
~ Sara Teasdale
I was willing to pay any price including subservience to secure this love, hoping that with each piece of myself I gave up he would be so pleased that he, too, would be transformed.
~ Susan Strasberg