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Quotes About Yearning

This is what freedom feels like, he thinks. This is what I missed the most. He
~ James Patterson
The guy who'd kissed me last week—that guy was gone. Sure, I'd rejected him, and sure, I didn't own him. But even so, it hurt. I missed the Richie who'd mooned over me.
~ James Patterson
How could I desire him like this when I was so full of sorrow? And would he desire me enough to help take me away from here, even for a few stolen moments?
~ James Patterson
By Friday, I could tell something was missing. Just breaking the rules by itself wasn't going to cut it. I needed something more. I needed a boost in my game.
~ James Patterson
want the world to know how I felt about her. But now
~ James Patterson
She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not reach him, and it made her throat ache with unhappiness to meet that look of his that rested on her face without seeing it.
~ Georgette Heyer
I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty.
~ Adam Lambert
I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.
~ Martha Wainwright
That concept is quite universal, looking for love.
~ Charlie Heaton
However you define God, and whether you believe in God or not, the world we live in has been shaped by the universal human conviction that there is more to life than life itself; that there is a 'god' shaped hole at the centre of our universe.
~ Robert Winston
'Need You Now' is a universal subject matter. It's something that not just country fans, not just pop fans - everybody's been there. And the production was a little left of center.
~ Hillary Scott
What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
~ Jacques Lacan
How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?
~ Boyle Roche
All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts.
~ William Carlos Williams
No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
~ Barbara Mertz
I could do with more mobbing. Particularly from women. I'd like to be treated like Ricky Martin.
~ Hugh Grant
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.
~ Colin Wilson
She took my hand and pulled me after her, her shoulders giving off a sweet peppermint concoction that the bodies of young women sometimes produce to make my life more difficult.
~ Gary Shteyngart
I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.
~ John Fante
Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.
~ George Herbert
"What do women want?" "They eat green salad and drink human blood."
~ Saul Bellow
It is not a woman I want - it is all women.
~ Henri Barbusse
A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
~ Alexander Pope