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Quotes About Yearning

I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love.
~ Sylvia Plath
I deserve that, don't I, some sort of blazing love that I can live with.
~ Sylvia Plath
Insane for your sweet, sweet love!
~ Tahereh Mafi
Paper Moon didn't bring me love.
~ Tatum O'Neal
The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
~ Tennessee Williams
Stella: And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby.. [she smiles to herself] Blanche: I guess that is what is meant by being in love.
~ Tennessee Williams
Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones - THAT kind of love.
~ Tim O'Brien
...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered.
~ Tim O'Brien
…he glanced over his shoulder at her, regarding her, as he often did before they made love, as if she were a lost continent about to be rediscovered.
~ Tom Robbins
You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your eyes in because I was loving the hoof marks on your cheeks.
~ Toni Morrison
I don't know what will happen to me without you. Only you. Only you love me. Out of everyone in the world.
~ Tony Kushner
Being in love with someone who doesn't even know that you exist isn't the worst thing in the world.
~ Tonya Hurley
Everyone longs for expressiveness. That's why love carries so much weight. Because so many lives are without other means of expressiveness.
~ Vivian Gornick
The past, the future, majesty, love - if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.
~ Walt Whitman
To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.
~ William Blake
Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.
~ William Blake
And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
~ William Butler Yeats
Nothing that we love overmuch Is ponderable to our touch.
~ William Butler Yeats
Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon.
~ William Faulkner
We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.
~ William H. Macy
There's no greater search than that of lost love.
~ William Petersen
Inside every cowboy there's a lady who'd love to slip out.
~ Willie Nelson
He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.
~ Ann Brashares