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Quotes About Yearning

Leo fell in love with every girl he saw-as long as she was completely out of his league.
~ Rick Riordan
Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.
~ ROBERT HUGH BENSON
For men love what they cannot have, and hate what they cannot control.
~ Robin Maxwell
I want to be someone's everything. I want fire and passion, and love that's returned, equally. I want to be someone's heart.
~ S.C. Stephens
If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.
~ Salman Rushdie
I'd love to be abducted. I'd sit on my deck at home waiting all night long to be abducted. But that's never happened that I know of.
~ Sammy Hagar
Sure my love is all crostLike a bud in the frostAnd there's no use at all in my going to bed,For 't is dhrames and not slape that comes into my head!
~ Samuel Lover
By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
~ Samuel Richardson
I never wanted anything so much than to drown in your love and not feel your rain.
~ Sara Bareilles
Love said, "Wake still and think of me," Sleep, "Close your eyes till break of day," But Dreams came by and smilingly Gave both to Love and Sleep their way.
~ Sara Teasdale
When you've never gotten love from someone, you don't know what it might look like if it ever does appear. You look for it in everything: any bright light overhead could be a star.
~ Sarah Dessen
So if we could not have love, my husband and I, then at least I could have alchemy.
~ Sarah Dunant
It was a terrifying feeling. And if it was love, he wanted none of it.
~ Sarah MacLean
She was kind of in love with him.
~ Sarah Rees Brennan
All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.
~ Scott Spencer
I want to love, and be loved.
~ Shana Abé
How do you do that? (Abbie) What, sweetheart? (Hunter) Make me crazy to beat you one minute and crazy to love you the next. (Abbie)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Imora thea mi savur," Ash whispered under his breath in Atlantean. God save me from love.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that.
~ Sherwood Anderson
what could i do to make the one i loved love me back ?
~ Simone Elkeles
It's been seven hours and fifteen days, since you took your love away.
~ Sinead O'Connor
I wish the world would swallow us here, whole, in this moment. And that's when it hits me that this - this - is falling in love.
~ Stephanie Perkins
Where's that higher love I keep thinking of?
~ Steve Winwood
Young bones groan And the rocks below say, "Throw your white body down!" But I'm going to meet the one I love At last
~ Steven Morrissey