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Quotes About Yearning

I'm kissing you because sometimes I can't not kiss you.
~ Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
If yet I have not all thy love love Dear I shall never have it all.
~ John Donne
I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feetHas led me- who knows how?To thy chamber-window, Sweet!
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
And I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have.
~ Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.
~ Alice Walker, The Color Purple
If you do not love me I shall not be loved. If I do not love you I shall not love.
~ Samuel Beckett
Twice or thrice had I lov'd thee, Before I knew thy face or name
~ John Donne, The Love Poems
You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you. That's where I'll be waiting.
~ J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
When you miss someone....it's weird…your body doesn't function normally..as it should. Because I miss you, and my heart…it's not steady…my soul it sings numb. Fingers are cold…like you…your soul.
~ Coco J. Ginger
With you, intimacy colours my voice.even 'hello' sounds like 'come here'.
~ Warsan Shire
I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.
~ Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
You can't leave yet. I'm not finished falling in love with you.
~ Colleen Hoover, November 9
Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to it's own devices and creates you to be much more then reality would ever allow.
~ Coco J. Ginger
I told you, " he whispers back. I can feel his breath just tickling the space behind my ear, making my hair prick up on my neck. "I like you.""You don't know me, " I say quickly."I want to, though.
~ Lauren Oliver, Delirium
I want him to love me as much as I love him.
~ L.J. Smith, The Awakening
What are you wishing for?' Grace interrupted. 'To kiss you, ' I said to her.
~ Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
I think about you every second of every day and I don't know how to get over you, " she says."Don't, " I beg her. "Please don't get over me.
~ Colleen Hoover, November 9
What's wrong is that every morning and every night, I lie in bed wondering why you're not beside me.
~ K.A. Tucker, Ten Tiny Breaths
You left with my soul in your fists and my heart in your teeth, and I don't want either of them back." ~Ben
~ Colleen Hoover, November 9
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.
~ Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
I miss everything about youCan't believe that I still want youAnd after all the things we've been through
~ Colbie Caillat
I'd sell my soul to have you. In my whole life, you'll always be what I wanted most."~ Hardy Cates
~ Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
Do you love him?"Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying.
~ Scott Westerfeld, Goliath
She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet.If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away.
~ Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park