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Quotes About Yearning

We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.
~ Jeanette Winterson
She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
I would have given you the world if you had given me the chance.
~ Jess Collins
The only thing that has ever consumed me is love from time to time. Feeling like, 'What is it? How do I get it?'
~ Jim Carrey
The one that rambles for a million miles, yes, I walk down this road searching for your love.
~ Jimi Hendrix
I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.
~ John Fowles
The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body.
~ Jostein Gaarder
There is a lot of love in him, a lot of love in his heart...And he is up there with no one and nothing to love. It is a bad thing to have love and no where to put it.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Out stretched hands and one night stands, still I can't find love.
~ Kid Rock
It occurred to her suddenly, sharply, that she wanted to be in love... She wanted not to feel so damned alone in the world.
~ Kristin Hannah
To live without you is to be robbed of love and what is life without it? To live without you is death to me, my love but some call it life.
~ Rumi
All we really want is love's confusing joy.
~ Rumi
I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
~ Saint Augustine
Love itself cannot be divorced from the suffering which comes from being separated from the object of love.
~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Love is the most important thing in life. If you don't have (a relationship), you're always looking for one.
~ Sheryl Crow
If you really ever love someone, that doesn't go away, although you wish it would.
~ Sinead O'Connor
One can't live on love alone; and I am so stupid that I can do nothing but think of him.
~ Sophia Tolstaya
I wish I could stop being in love with Sam. I really do.
~ Stephen Chbosky
It is very painful to love someone and believe you cannot be with them.
~ Terry Kay
O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.
~ Thomas Merton
It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
~ William Butler Yeats
Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest,hurts the deepest,but feels the strongest
~ William Shakespeare
Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench; I love her ten times more than e'er I did: O, how I long to have some chat with her!
~ William Shakespeare
I'm afraid love is just a word.
~ Harry Mulisch