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Quotes About Yearning

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.
~ Stephen King, Dreamcatcher
I feel for food more than I could crave a woman. And that's the truth!
~ Kai Greene
The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.
~ Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)
~ Edgar Allan Poe
A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.
~ Steve Martin
I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.
~ Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
~ Erica Jong
Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.
~ Stephen King
Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.
~ George Sand
And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.
~ Libba Bray
The truth is, when it gets really quiet, when the silence gets too loud, i really start to miss everyone.
~ Stephen Chbosky
If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.
~ Marianne Williamson
Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
The truth is, I'd give it all up to be a rock star.
~ Don Ohlmeyer
Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape
~ Ellen Hopkins
Until you allow yourself to blossom into a state of boundlessness, you should not be content, you must burn with discontent.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.
~ Jude Morgan
I would love to have a number one hit. The truth is if I don't get one, I'll be fine, but at the same time, the truth is that I'm dying for one, as well.
~ Rufus Wainwright
At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity can help too.
~ Willard Van Orman Quine
I long for truth, and yet I cannot stay from that My better self disowns, For a man's attention Brings such satisfaction To the craving in my bones.
~ William Butler Yeats
Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for what is their natural element.
~ William Mountford
The truth is, I always want to kiss you.
~ Alex Rosa, Tryst
Five acts - humility, gratitude, vegetarianism, yearning, and crying - get you "It". Have you tried it?
~ Fakeer Ishavardas