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Quotes About Yearning

Oh, Daisy, it's revolting the way I want to fawn all over him. I'm afraid I'm going to do something dreadfully silly today. Burst into song or something. For God's sake, don't let me.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Is it every man and woman's curse to want it all and only get ten percent of it? Or do we ask too much?
~ Lorna Landvik
It is a terrible thing to want something you cannot have. It takes you over. I couldn't think straight because of it. There was no one else, I realized, whom I could possibly tell.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
you just can't wait to get out of your head, can you?" "if you were in here you might want that too.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
I always think the audience sometimes wants what you're not giving them.
~ Marc Guggenheim
Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.
~ Margaret Atwood
Actors always want to be musicians, and musicians want to be actors
~ Marilyn Manson
Time and space, and freedom. That's what I want most. Isn't that true for all of us?
~ Mark Alan Stamaty
It's not that people want too much, it's that they want too little.
~ Mark Victor Hansen
How'd it feel?" Rube asked himself. "I don't know exactly, but it made me want to howl.
~ Markus Zusak
Ed?" Ritchie says later. We're still standing in the water. "There's only one thing I want." "What's that, Ritchie?" His answer is simple. "To want.
~ Markus Zusak
Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself.
~ Mason Cooley
I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.
~ Maurice Sendak
I don't deserve your love or your shine, but I want it because with you I can feel the sun. I don't want to go back to those shadows.
~ Maya Banks
Despite the boredom of the infinity, we want life not shorter than the eternity!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
In the winter you may want the summer; in the summer, you may want the autumn; in the autumn, you may want the winter; but only in the spring you dream and want no other season but the spring!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I'm sick and tired of you people living interstate and overseas from people you want to be with. You're ruining my life! All of you!
~ Melina Marchetta
And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to say anymore." "I want to be an adjective again. But I am a noun.
~ Melina Marchetta
That someone can want something out of another person who gives absolutely nothing in return astounds me.
~ Melina Marchetta
You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.
~ Melissa Bank
My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.
~ Michael Sheen
It hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time.
~ Michelle Branch
Sometimes, when you want to be in a place so badly, you'll do anything.
~ Mike Birbiglia
Lord, I want to be up in my heart.
~ Moby