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Quotes About Yearning

They say I'm greedy, but I still want more, cause my eyes want to journey.
~ Snoop Dogg
All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
~ Maxim Gorky
If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.
~ Kathy Acker
When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
~ Willa Cather
She is Cuba. If you want to love her, you have to be with her, but you can't be with her in her current state. It's the point of view of all exiles - you have to leave the thing you cherish most.
~ Andy Garcia
Yes, Roza. I did want you. I still do. I wish... we could be together. -Dimitri to Rose on their relationship
~ Richelle Mead
So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!
~ Charlie Chaplin
It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can't have.
~ Eddie Redmayne
If you want something then you lose everything. If you don't want anything then you already have everything.
~ Seungsahn
There are very few things in my life that I can't have if I want them. So when I see something that I can't have, immediately I'm obsessed by it.
~ George Michael
It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
~ Sylvia Plath
From the urgent way lovers want each other to the seeker's search for truth, all moving is from the mover. Every Pull Draws Us To The Ocean.
~ Rumi
He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.
~ Abbi Glines
As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.
~ Henry Rollins
I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough.' 'But you built me dreams instead.
~ Erin Morgenstern
I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.
~ Dashiell Hammett
I want you. Bad. Right now. Against the wall. On my bed. The floor and maybe in the bathroom later. I have a shower stall and a Jacuzzi we could put to really good use. I know you'd like it.
~ J. Lynn
Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.
~ Mark Helprin
You want what you want, whether or not you think you can have it.
~ Robert Fritz
my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.
~ Pablo Neruda
Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.
~ Colin Wilson
I just haven't found anyone that I want to spend long periods of time with.
~ Kate Moss
We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs.
~ Kathy Acker