Quotes About Yearning

I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge.

He that would eat of love must eat it where it hangs.

..still to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her to love.

He treasured her, treasured her tears, treasured her love for others. Her heart might even be big enough to fill that empty space in his own chest. Perhaps she could be his heart as well.

I am crying over the elusive nature of love.

I want to know living love. And I don't want to wait for it.

Love is only found in books

That is how I'm loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he's in my soul.

You'll ache. And you're going to love it. It will crush you. And you're still going to love all of it.

I am always in love.

So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.

Alas! for love, if thou art all, And nought beyond, O earth.

In so many of my songs, I'm trying to touch on various aspects of love.

The feeling of love is measured by the extent of missing the feverish state in which the absence of the other plunges us

What is it that you love in others?--My hopes.

You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.

Touch has a memory. O say, love, say, What can I do to kill it and be free?

You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon—

Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss

I absolutely, positively hate this beautiful, magical feeling.

Lust is the best of all the deadly sins.

Nor did he think of Celia any more, though he could sometimes remember having dreamt of her. If only he had been able to think of her, he would not have needed to dream of her.

She gave me for my pains a world of sighs.

As once I loved you in my mortal flesh, without it now I love you still.