Quotes About Yearning

Don't wish. Don't Start. Wishing only wounds the heart.

People like the way dreams have of sticking to the soul.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

I'm waiting.... For something new and strange, Something I've dreamt about in some deep sleep, Truer than any waking.

You have taken my heart from me, sea-born eyes. You have taken it, yes, but I do not know. There are too many roads where I must go. There are too many beds where I have slept For a night unweeping, to quit unwept, And it needs a king to marry the sea.

You're not asleep, and you're not dead. I'm here, and I love you. I have always loved you, and I will always love you. I was thinking of you, seeing your face in my mind, every second that I was away. When I told you that I didn't want you, it was the very blackest kind of blasphemy.

I honestly have no idea how to live without you.

You know I love you right?" I know," he breathed, his arm tightening automatically around my waist. You know how much I wish it was enough.

Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it.

Isn't there something you want to tell me, something filthy and lovely and true

It's the reason we become enamored of certain singers, I think, because they project the voice we wish to summon within ourselves. His

1939. Love rages. It cries out from you, seething and red; I come back for more and more.

Since I've never had a dream,' she begins, 'one night I woke and went looking for one.

What chord did she pluck in my soul that girl with the golden necklace & ivory breasts whose body ignited the river: she who rose like the moon from her bathing & brushed back the ebony hair that fell to her waist & walked off into the twilight dark— O my soul, what chord did she pluck that I am still trembling.

How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a distance, so that when she was gone you would not miss her?

Don't desire anything except the end of desire.

Desire is like a fertilized cell that forever splits and multiplies and never reaches a final form only disperses and dilutes your mind and takes you even further away from the source.

Discontent is caused by not having what you think you want.

Pain and purpose are two sides of the same thing. A person struggling with depression is very likely a person yearning to feel fully. A socially anxious person is very likely a person yearning to connect with others. You hurt where you care, and you care where you hurt.

Immortality teases and frustrates man's imagination.

I wish I could have known you.

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?

While the innocent yearned to lose their innocence, those who had already done so in turn envied the innocent, and knew grief in what they had lost. Between the two, no exchange of truths was possible.

It' s easy to weep when staying far away, doing nothing.