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Quotes About Yearning

You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
If all the women over the world have been permitted to be married to only one man, except one woman. He'd love to marry that woman. That is the imprint of man
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Some wo/men are so possessive … you end up missing missing them.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
~ Alexander Pushkin
It's easier to look sexy when you're thinking of one man in particular.
~ Marilyn Monroe
In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Dreaming men are haunted men.
~ Stephen Vincent Benet
I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.
~ Frank O'Hara
No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
~ Agnes Repplier
The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie in wait, Yet cannot shun the meshes of desire.
~ Bhartrhari
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.
~ Saint Augustine
There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man.
~ Blaise Pascal
I long for scenes where man has never trod;... There to abide with my Creator, God.
~ John Clare
My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
~ Chief Joseph
Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection
~ Jack Butler Yeats
But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.
~ Robin Williams
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
I'm hooked my friend to the boy who makes slaves out of men, and oh believe me, flying high in a friendly sky.
~ Marvin Gaye
Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
~ Frederick Buechner
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
~ Anatole France