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Quotes About Yearning

God send everyone their heart's desire!
~ William Shakespeare
We still and always want waking.
~ Annie Dillard
We might miss the days of being unreachable.
~ Melanie Gideon, Wife 22
Lovers moon and wishing stars are too busy for the likes of us.
~ Jake. H. Khiangte
Real vision dies only when life dies. Once we live, we hope, we yearn for and we aspire to have something!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
She wanted to reach up to the night and dig her fingers into it, beg it to stay just a little bit longer.
~ Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost
...hero or not, he wanted to hold her forever and not let go.
~ Heidi Glick, Dog Tags
I must go down to the sea...to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by......
~ John Masefield
We have many needs in life, but the one thing we really need is to be needed by the one we need the most.
~ Various
If I want to do it, I dream it.
~ Nadim Gavandi
Stop the world, I wanna get on!
~ Leopold "Leo" Bloom
Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes, and he held onto nothing, and he held onto dreams.
~ Neil Gaiman, American Gods
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
~ Marge Piercy
Be Free!, That I want to Be !
~ Tirumalai S. Srivatsan
Why do you chase the wind?
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
To desire is to dream.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Every year, we have 365 chances to begin a new lifetime.
~ C. JoyBell C.
Reality Sucks, I want my dreams back.
~ Sandra Chami Kassis
I wake up to find magic, I seek dreams and I crave imagination. This is my creed.
~ Anastasia Bolinder
We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known
~ Carson McCullers
Deep down inside what i want is a little of me.
~ Lucas Soares Adriano
In proportion to our faith will be our desire for the increase of knowledge.
~ JAMES WADDEL ALEXANDER
Were you truly happy in that memory? Was it as romantic as it appeared years later? And did you only yearn for it once life got harder and you wanted to escape back to a time when your new problems didn't exist?
~ James Weir
The man who has not loved before he was fourteen has missed a foretaste of Elysium.
~ James Weldon Johnson