Quotes About Yearning

You came here of your own accord and are lost in yourself; I know not what you search for, or who. If I want anyone it is you, if I want to see anyone it is you. You are the desire of my heart and my eyes' prayer.

He had thought providing for his wife was the greatest expression of devotion. Somehow it hadn't sufficed. How could I have loved her more? I never touched another woman. His sorrow was this: There was something she had needed, something she had tried to call forth from within him, that he did not possess.

It turns out I'm absolutely terrible at staying away from you. It's a very serious problem.

I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.

...sometimes I get tired. Sometimes I get bored. And sometimes all I want, more than anything else in the world, is to go on a freaking date.

I want to lie down somewhere and suffer from love until it nearly kills me, and then I wnat to get up again and put on that little black dress and wait for you, yes you, to come over here and get down on your knees and tell me just how fucking good I look

I'm saying I know all about you, whoever you are, it's spring and it's starting again, the longing that begins, and begins, and begins.

and it's starting again, the longing that begins, and begins, and begins.

How pure your longing to be anything other than yourself.

I'm like a kid waiting my turn for ice cream: "I want it now!" But these things never make me truly satisfied. They give me a quick buzz followed by a severe low and leave me wanting more of the same high.

Dear beautiful Spring weather, I miss you. Was it something I said?

Too many people surrender to a place of safety. That place where all they do is long to sleep so they can dream about living.

Too many people surrender to a place of safety. That place where all they do is long to sleep so they can dream about living. Even if you don't find what you think you're looking for, darling, it's the going out and looking for it that counts. That is the only way you can know you have lived.

Until now, she had known herself only as a person who yearned. A woman who had what she wanted was a stranger to her. But here, in this faraway temple, that stranger was finally within sight.

Hold me tight, down on my knees, so I don't go burning 'cross the breeze.

An unending kiss--that's all we ever wanted to feel when we paid to hear someone play.

Classic romance dilemma: you always want the man you can't have, and you never want the man that wants you.

I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.

There was at time in my life where all I wanted was a relationship, and I thought that was the most important thing.

They had a longing to move up and out, to be something bigger than they were born to.

Well, now, what do you expect? You're His child. Of course you're going to be lonely when you hold yourself from Him.

lifted the jug he'd left in the shade between the mercantile and drugstore and took a lengthy swig, his gaze lifting to the window of Sadie's room. Wouldn't she rather have a whole house to call her own? Sure she would. Every woman wanted her own place, a husband, and a family. And he was willing to give it to her, if only she'd stop fluttering her eyelashes at the sheriff and look at Sid.

He did not wish to be formal. He wished to sweep her into his arms and welcome her with a kiss that would speak all the things his heart felt.

When he set her feet on the ground, she did not move her hands from his shoulders right away, but looked at him with a winsome expression. His breath came fast and hard, and he wished once more they could be alone and he could just kiss her and see what happened.