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Quotes About Yearning

Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing: That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this-- Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.
~ William Shakespeare
I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic.
~ Eric Bana
She exists, Damon. There are women out there who crave what we can give them. Once you taste it, you can't ever let go of it.
~ Maya Banks
Tous les jours on couche avec des femmes qu'on n'aime pas, et l'on ne couche pas avec des femmes qu'on aime. Every day we sleep with women we do not love and don't sleep with the women we do love.
~ Denis Diderot
TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.
~ Eliza Coupe
It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!
~ Émile Zola
I'm an attention freak. I want all the women in the world, and if I don't get them, I fall to the ground and start kicking my feet.
~ Eminem
How can I ever miss you when you never go away?
~ Gloria Jones
Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.
~ John Donne
It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.
~ Judith Perelman Rossner
Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this, but it means that these women, they were not sharing my solitude.
~ Klaus Kinski
Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.
~ Leonard Cohen
I've never been attracted to women sexually and I wanted romance.
~ Linda D. Thompson
Beautiful women are the torment of my existence.
~ Markus Zusak
The wish of peeking at women showering is also a kind of romance.
~ Natsuki Takaya
Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit, Whatever they are.
~ Philip Larkin
Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid.
~ Subhash Kak
I think women secretly yearn for the return of John Wayne and don't even know it.
~ Troy Duffy
Men always want to be a woman's first love, -women want to be a man's last romance.
~ Oscar Wilde
A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must. A man to be happy, however, must yearn for his woman more than his liberty. This is the rightful order.
~ Roman Payne, Hope and Despair
There's nothing typical about Genuine Love. To be loved authentically is to be blessed beyond measure. Only a fool would take advantage of something that so many people yearn for.
~ Stephanie Lahart
Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I ate him up and didn't let go until I had to come up for air.
~ Priya Ardis