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Quotes About Yearning

What is joy? It is a bird That we all want to catch. It is the same bird That we all love to see flying.
~ Sri Chinmoy
There's a club if you'd like to go, you could meet somebody who really loves you, so you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home and you cry and you want to die.
~ Steven Morrissey
Call up, ring once, hang up the phone to let me know you made it home. Don't want nothing to be wrong with my part time lover.
~ Stevie Wonder
His pacing stopped. The mattress sighed as he sat on the edge. seconds ticked by before he spoke so softly she could barely hear. "Sometimes I want to leave this town so bad I can taste it.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Something about the goat dancing made me want to cry.
~ Susanna Kaysen
I will never have a life with Gale even if I want to.
~ Suzanne Collins
He caught me to him and cupped my cheek in one hand. "I want to keep feeling the way I feel when I'm with you. Just tell me what I have to do.
~ Sylvia Day
I think that what people always want is what they don't have a lot of...
~ Taylor Swift
You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of.
~ Tennessee Williams
My problem is I'm like a junkie. I want a good movie fix, and I never get that fix.
~ Terry Gilliam
I love to know that in all parts of the world, people want me. I need the attention.
~ Thalia
I'm sad for adults who want to be children. And children who want to be adults.
~ Tim Allen
The two things we all want so desperately — glory and relationship — can coexist only with God.
~ Timothy Keller
Want! You must want something. What do you want?
~ Tobias Wolff
It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.
~ Truman Capote
Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.
~ Umberto Eco
I'm totally sick of hotels. I'm totally sick of room service. I'm totally sick of how can I help you ma'am? I just want to go home and wash some dishes, play with my cat, watch some TV.
~ V V Brown
In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
~ Veronica Roth
There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed.
~ Virginia Woolf
I've felt love from certain songs that I've wanted to experience from other people - where I know that love may never happen - and I want to give that to someone else.
~ Wesley Eisold
The easiest way to lose something is to want it too badly.
~ Zach Braff
Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
~ Zooey Deschanel
In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.
~ Honore de Balzac
People can text with two hands and are so fast and I am not... I just have that one person I want to talk to.
~ Igor Levit