logo

Quotes About Yearning

My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can't have and wanting what you shouldn't want. And I shouldn't want you.
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
~ Gary Allan
There are those have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love.
~ Giovanni Papini
"We see each other once a year and yet we still love each other just as much, it's a wonder."
~ Unknown
"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."
~ George Bernard Shaw
I never wanted someone as badly as I want you.
~ Anonymous
Why do I love you? Because you are and always have been my dream.
~ Anonymous
However much you wanted someone to want you, there was nothing you could do to make it happen. Whatever you did for them, whatever you gave them, whatever you let them take, it could never be enough. Never enough to be sure. Never enough to satisfy them. Never enough to stop them walking away. Never enough to make them love you.
~ Manna Francis
A loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.
~ Albert Camus
Love becomes logically true when lost but still sought from the same source.
~ Brian Celio
Missing someone and not being able to see them is the worst feeling ever.
~ Nathanael Richmond
I love you simply because I cannot help myself.
~ K. Brevard
I wanted it to be you, I wanted it to be you so badly.
~ You've Got Mail
You make me feel like a firefly. Trapped in a belljar; starved for love.
~ Ayushee Ghoshal
I spent my days waiting for you, searching the crowds for your face. I stopped breathing the moment you recognized me, as you captured my soul with your gaze.
~ Christy A. Martine
I can't wait to see you again, even if just for a few moments… my heart skips a beat and I get a silly smile that takes over my face… maybe some day you will feel the same way too…
~ Karen Kostyla
"We have tried to run from our love, but our souls crave this magic."
~ Nikki Rowe
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
~ Rogers Hornsby
Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We're reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
"Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with?"
~ Meet Joe Black (1998)
"In a sea of people my eyes will always search for you."
~ Not Only Not Only Journals
"I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her."
~ Notting Hill
"I didn't come here to tell you I can't live without you. I can live without you. I just don't want to."
~ Rumor Has It
You meant to make me happy make me sad. Want to make it better better so bad.
~ Sara Bareilles