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Quotes About Yearning

...what is the meaning of La Belle Dame Sans Merci? - have you never been enthralled? enchantment that is unrequited desolates the soul...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I'm the last person to ask about unrequited love - I've run away to the Moon and fled to its valleys...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Oh how I had underestimated tender kisses.
~ Cora Carmack, Faking It
I can barely breathe but I think that his lips might be better than oxygen at the moment.
~ Autumn Doughton, I'll Be Here
Right now, all she knew was that she had the potential to love him greatly and fiercely, and she wanted to do so and nothing else very much and for many years.
~ Ash Gray, Tales of Talithia
I don't know why you care. He doesn't even know you're there
~ 'N Sync
love is but an echo in her head
~ David Cantor
Everytime he looked at her she felt brighter inside, and she yearned to keep his attention, to hold his gaze.
~ Jessica Khoury, Vitro
He had never looked at me before, never, and the idea made my skin burn.
~ Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
I recognized you instantly. All of our lives flashed through my mind in a split second. I felt a pull so strongly towards you that I almost couldn't stop it.
~ J. Sterling, In Dreams
Love? Love is like holding water in your hands. You might have it for a time, but it escapes, leaving you with nothing.
~ Laura Lam, Pantomime
You are my shooting star, and I always make a wish every time I see you.
~ Akshay Vasu
But he just stared at my eyes, as if searching for a stray eyelash. A free wish.
~ Leah Raeder
My love let me be your chalice your holy grail of dreams.
~ Truth Devour, Unrequited
He imagined them sitting somewhere, just enjoying each other's company, her head on his chest, his arm around her. And he realized how desperately lonely he had become.
~ Tim LaHaye, Tribulation Force
Sometime I wish if I were from Mars, because no one loves me here.
~ M.F. Moonzajer
There can be no peace of mind in love since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for further desires.
~ Marcel Proust
Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell? Whom do you lead on Rapture's roadway far Before you agonize them in farewell?
~ Laurence Hope
Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter.
~ William Thackeray
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.My sin, my soul.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
But the most important thing I know is that I want the possibility of you more than the reality of [her].
~ Caroline Kepnes, You
Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.
~ Julie Burchill
I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family.
~ Tony Perez
I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love.
~ Janis Joplin