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Quotes About Yearning

Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.
~ Cornelia Funke
You are a dream; I hope I never meet you.
~ Sylvia Plath
It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?
~ Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I'll tell you what I'm fighting for. Not for England, nor her allies, nor any patriotic cause. It's all come down to the hope of being with you.
~ Lisa Kleypas
There were days I asked for it-prayed for it when I went to sleep. The belief that I would see you again, that I could find you-the hope for it-was the only thing that kept me going.
~ Lauren Oliver
I think control is the wrong word. I would put it this way. You see a lovely girl across a crowded room and you walk toward her with hope in your mind. That's the way [my] pictures are made.
~ Henry Holmes Smith
It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky
~ Leo Tolstoy
The most heartbreakingly beautiful girl I ever hope to see
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Fair as the moon and joyful as the light; Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams.
~ Christina Rossetti
I cross the place where my heart used to be and hope to be even deader than I am now.
~ Derek Landy
I hope you're never happy with anybody but me, and every face you look into, I hope you're haunted by me. Yes, I'm possessive and jealous, at least I speak honestly.
~ Dolly Parton
Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.
~ E. L. Doctorow
Your name. That's all I want." I debate on whether or not I should explain to him that my name isn't going to help him in his stalking endeavours.
~ Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
It is just that I don't know how I could live without the hope of her. It would be like learning to live with wooden legs.
~ George Eliot, Middlemarch
I felt a wave of longing roll out of me, but not the way it usually did, diffuse and sad. This was hopeful, as though it had been coaxed out by a whispered promise.
~ Michele Jaffe, Ghost Flower
Except heaven is a hope, and eden is a memory .
~ Craig Thompson, Blankets
Human beings are primarily defined by what we desire, not what we know.
~ David Brooks
When you get right down to it, we don't ever want to know one another too well. We want there to be that mystery. Where there's mystery, there's hope.
~ Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
Oh sky...I won't ask so much as to become the sun or the moon, just one of the stars in between...
~ Lucia Jang
It felt as if she were bleeding - but it wasn't blood that leaked out of her, not something that could be easily transfused. Instead she was losing her dreams.
~ Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane
Everybody lives for something better to come.
~ Anonymous
How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.
~ E. T. A. Hoffmann