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Quotes About Yearning

The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.
~ Horace
I should like to be a horse.
~ Queen Elizabeth II
No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.
~ Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.
~ Dorothy Parker
Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?
~ John Waters, Role Models
I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.
~ Albert Camus, A Happy Death
It's impossible to ravish me, I'm so willing.
~ John Fletcher
I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy.
~ George Carlin, Brain Droppings
I'd love to...but only with you.
~ Morrissey
Nostalgia: How long's that been around?
~ Bill Bailey
When I envied a man's spurs then they were indeed worth coveting.
~ Zane Grey
I am hated for loving.I am haunted for wanting.
~ Morrissey
Well, I've always wanted to call my son
~ Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Vol. 2
There is no pathos more bitter than that of parting from someone we have never met.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
He'd bet his right nut her skin would taste as good as it smelled.
~ Kelly Moran, Tracking You
Celibacy sucks, no pun intended.
~ Lois Greiman, Unplugged
Dear God, that man has a magnificent body.' ............. 'It's like having a cupcake thrust in front of your face and not being allowed to have a lick of the icing.
~ J.L. McCoy
I ordered a single espresso because I wanted a drink I could hook up with.
~ Randy Kagan
Neither would you, had you grown up in a library of melodramatic romance novels.
~ Clementine Holzinger, EL32
Olga was better, in the sun, where he could see every pore in her skin. Get closer. Feel her next to him. It was all he wanted in the world. It was the last thing in the world that he could do.
~ Graham Spaid, tireless:
I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body... and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.
~ Pablo Neruda
Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands.
~ Pablo Neruda
Half of my heart's got a real good imagination, half of my heart's got you. . .Half of my hearts got a right mind to tell you that half of my heart won't do.
~ John Mayer
It is hard to find romance in the present because there's nothing left to the imagination.
~ James McBride