Quotes About Yearning

But it was also obvious that man could not live by work alone; that the particular man Jude, at any rate, wanted something to love.

They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men.

Ah, if I could only make your dear heart ache one little minute of each day as mine does every day and all day long, it might lead you to show pity to your poor lonely one....

Because 'tis always mournful not to be wanted, even if at the same time 'tis convenient.

I like reading and all that, but a crave to get back to the life of my infancy and all its freedom. (Sue Bridehead)

I shall do one thing in this life – one thing certain – that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.

he turned to go his own way, and hardly knew he loved her still.

The daylight has nothing to show me, since you are not here, and I don't like to see the rooks and starlings in the fields, because I grieve and grieve to miss you who used to see them with me. I long for only one thing in heaven or earth or under the earth, to meet you my own dear! Come to me - come to me, and save me from what threatens me! - Your faithful heartbroken

Her one desire, so long resisted, to make herself his, to call him her lord, her own—then

Her house looked cold from the foggy lea, And the square of each window a dull black blur Where showed no stir: Yes, her gloom within at the lack of me Seemed matching mine at the lack of her. The black squares grew to be squares of light As the eyeshade swathed the house and lawn, And viols gave tone; There was glee within. And I found that night The gloom of severance mine alone

There's more for us to think about in that one little hungry heart than in all the stars of the sky…

Perhaps to know her would be to cure himself of this unexpected and unauthorized passion.

Don't that make your bosom plim?

Well, if you wanted to love me, why do you blow so hot and cold? Why do you... keep tantalizing me -Angel

Your husband, my dear, is, I make no doubt, having scorching weather all this time. Lord, if he could only see his pretty wife now! Not that this weather hurts your beauty at all—in fact, it rather does it good.

We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks while a free man, but there is a breadth of vision in the free man which in the lover we vainly seek.

Her heart longed for some ark into which it could fly and be at rest. Rough or smooth she did not care, so long as it was warm.

Ah, a time of his life shall come when he will have to repent, and think wretchedly of the pain he has caused another man; and then may he ache, and wish, and curse, and yearn—as I do now!

so that I could only be near you, and get glimpses of you, and think of you as mine.

O no. You should lift Marian! Such a lump. You are like an undulating billow warmed by the sun. And all this fluff of muslin about you is the froth.

Enough that in the present case, as in millions, it was not the two halves of a perfect whole that confronted each other at the perfect moment; a missing counterpart wandered independently about the earth waiting in crass obtuseness till the late time came.

Get away, Maryann, or go on with your scrubbing, or do something! You ought to be married by this time, and not here troubling me! Ay, mistress—so I did. But what between the poor men I won't have, and the rich men who won't have me, I stand as a pelican in the wilderness!

Oh my love, my love, why do I love you so? she whispered there alone; for she you love is not myself, but one in my image; the one I might have been!

More than ever he longed to be in some world where personal ambition was not the only recognized form of progress—such, perhaps, as might have been the case at some time or other in the silvery globe then shining upon him.