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Quotes About Yearning

One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I know you'll never love me but maybe you'll stay for awhile.
~ Henry Rollins
I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas.
~ Herman Melville
The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
~ Honore de Balzac
What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone's company you love them.
~ Iris Murdoch
Was it love when somebody filled a space in your life that yawned inside you, once they had gone?
~ J. K. Rowling
All shall love me and despair.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.
~ James Branch Cabell
In Lilly's eyes her beautiful clear water eyes there is what I have sought and never found, wanted and never had, hoped for and never discovered. Love.
~ James Frey
You love him so much it feels like you can't go on without him. You feel like you might die without him.
~ James Patterson
And then there was him, the long and painful love of her life.
~ Jane Green
Passion pursues; love surrenders.
~ janet todd
From henceforth thou shalt learn that there is love To long for, pureness to desire, a mount Of consecration it were good to scale.
~ Jean Ingelow
If love were endless, if it were on tap, it wouldn't hit us the way it does. And we certainly wouldn't write about it.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
no reason to mention my peculiarities, my wandering in the maze these many years, shut away from sight. and from love, too.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
I just want to love and be loved.
~ Jennie Garth
And no matter what you do or how hard you try, you can't stop yourself from dreaming.
~ Jenny Han
Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to his new love, while back at Seadown House, Marianne was writing 'Ella' on scraps of paper and then burning them.
~ Jessica Day George
Love is best a phantom than reality, better in the chase than caught.
~ Jessie Burton
love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.
~ Jodi Picoult
Loneliness is not being alone, It's loving others to no avail.
~ John Berendt
I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need.
~ John Cale
To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.
~ John Donne
Love is just a shout in the void.
~ John Green