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Quotes About Yearning

What you want most you push away from you. You want more than you care to admit.
~ Tarjei Vesaas
I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been, and I did not want to leave him
~ Alice Sebold
Baby, in a world without pity Do you think what I'm askin's too much I just want to feel you in my arms Share a little of that Human Touch.
~ Bruce Springsteen
The heart wants what the heart wants
~ Candace Bushnell
My heart always belongs to the one who doesn't want it.
~ Cathy Guisewite
But what I miss the most is knowing just exactly where it hurts, knowing just exactly what is wrong and what I want.
~ Chris Pureka
You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.
~ D. H. Lawrence
As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.
~ David Mamet
Pain is all I know." He murmured. "Peace is all I want
~ Dean Koontz
On Creating — What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.
~ Emile M. Cioran
The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.
~ Eugene V. Debs
The world is full of places to which I want to return
~ Ford Madox Ford
I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated.
~ Gary Shteyngart
Her memory's your love. You want no other.
~ Henry James
Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be a beautiful thing to believe.
~ James Frey
I have no clue why, but maybe sometimes when there's someone you don't hear from, it's the person you want to hear from the most.
~ Janet Jackson
There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.
~ Jodi Picoult
A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
~ Langston Hughes
Just for once, I want someone to want me more than anybody else. To put me first.
~ Mariah Fredericks
There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want.
~ Noel Coward
He always kept me just on the edge of crazy. Feeling like I wanted him too much, which just made me want him more." "That sounds excruciating.
~ Rainbow Rowell
All I'm asking for is what I want.
~ Rickey Henderson
Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.
~ Robert Breault
It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise.
~ Sallie Tisdale