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Quotes About Yearn

Pauvre petite femme! Ça baîlle après l'amour, comme une carpe après l'eau sur une table de cuisine. Avec trois mots de galanterie, cela vous adorerait, j'en suis sûr! ce serait tendre! charmannt!... Oui, mais comment s'en débarresser ensuite? - Rodolphe Boulanger
~ Gustave Flaubert
And Emma wondered exactly what was meant in life by the words 'bliss', 'passion', 'ecstasy', which had looked so beautiful in books
~ Gustave Flaubert
She plained of love, she longed for wings
~ Gustave Flaubert
Esta prohibición de verla era para él como un derecho a amarla.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Do you know the wish of your heart? - The Darkest Road
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
çünkü s?k?c?, tekdüze bir yaÅŸam, bilinmeyene kar?? daha büyük özlemler doÄŸurur.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
And yet he did not find the happiness he had dreamed of, nor the peace he had so much desired, and she understood him, and loved him for that very reason, that he had found neither happiness nor peace; deep, deep inside her she loved him because he had fled.
~ Halldor Laxness
Hanan Al-Shaykh
~ she lulling
Born for disappointment, she only wanted what I couldn't give.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Wes wants to be with Macy. And Macy, whether she'll admit it or not, wants to be with Wes. And yet they're not together, which is not only unjust, but when you think about it, tragical!
~ Sarah Dessen
Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.
~ Judith Thurman
Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
~ Carson McCullers
I would be anyone if only I could be with you.
~ Shelly Thacker
Perhaps unrequited love was like a specter in the house, a presence that brushed at the edge of senses, a heat in the dark, a shadow under the sun.
~ Sherry Thomas
Because I've never been wanted so much by a woman who dislikes me so. And I would like to experience that fully.
~ Sherry Thomas
I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.
~ Sherwood Anderson
Io sono uno che ama e non ho trovato la cosa da amare.
~ Sherwood Anderson
Fuck, I wanted her. Even knowing what she thought of me, I wanted her. In all my life, I'd never wanted anything, not really. Except maybe not to be what I was—what I'll always be. But I wanted her with every fiber of my being but it was more than a physical need, although that was a gut-wrenching thing, one that might end me. I wanted everything about her, from the way she laughed, to the way she spoke to her dog to the solemn way she surveyed everything.
~ Shiloh Walker
My need of your words: for such closeness there should be a word beyond love." Helen, to Leith, in "The Great Fire
~ Shirley Hazzard
Nothing has changed. It's still very simple. I miss him. I miss him every day. I miss him very much. But how would it be if that feeling was gone? I would not want that to happen. I told the shrink: it would not make me happy at all not to miss him anymore.
~ Sigrid Nunez
Lengsel. Hvad er lengsel igrunnen? tenkte han da han gikk videre. Lengsel. Det tommes hunger efter noget som kan fylle det. Men kan det tomme fylle det tomme? O store ven predikeren, du har for alle tider sagt det som kan sies om alle ting.
~ Sigurd Hoel
Sometimes, language is the sound of longing
~ Simon Van Booy
Somewhere across the city, among the thousands of thumping hearts, was the one he wanted.
~ Simon Van Booy
You're where I want to be.
~ Simone Elkeles