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Quotes About Yearning

I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
~ Nadine Gordimer
Why are you sad, Dorian?" He couldn't lie to her. "The leopard wants you to see it.
~ Nalini Singh
There is nothing in this world that I want or need, but you.
~ Nancy Werlin
I'm one of those people that, when I read or get encapsulated by a world, I want to live and breathe and be there.
~ Nick Willing
I wonder if you can understand, I never really knew what it was to want, until you.
~ Nora Roberts
I just found you - I don't want to leave you so soon.
~ P. C. Cast
I think the balance is between what you can get, what you want and what wants you.
~ Patrick Wilson
No,' he said, 'memory's a poor thing to have. It's your own real hair and mouth and arms and eyes and hands I want. I didn't know I could ever love anything so much.
~ Philip Pullman
When you first start off, you see what other people have and quietly say, "I want that."
~ Questlove
Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred; The love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.
~ Orson Scott Card
The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it's worthy of respect. It's not admirable to want love, it just is.
~ Rachel Kushner
There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'
~ Ralph Fiennes
Maybe one day you'll understand I don't want nothing more than to sweetly hold your hand.
~ Regina Spektor
the kind of kiss that said, I want to consume every inch of you and hear you scream my name.
~ Richelle Mead
Sydney: Ever had that happen? Once you can't have something, you want it that much more." Adrian: "Yes. It happens all the time.
~ Richelle Mead
The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.
~ Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
You get what you want and you become its slave.
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
You will be what you really want to be.
~ Debasish Mridha
I don't want to know that you don't want me. I don't want to know what you do without me. I don't want to know what I'll be without you. I dont wanna know. I don't wanna know.
~ Sara Quin
I want out of this place.With no reminders."It stings -sulphur tearsin cinnamon rain.
~ Emma Cameron, Cinnamon Rain
Stop crying to the ocean, stop crying over me. Stop worrying over nothing, stop worrying over me. So it's been so long since you said, well I know what I want and what I want's right here with you.
~ Tegan Quin
Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.
~ Sebastian Junger
Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.
~ Antonin Artaud