Quotes About Yearn

I never wanted you lost, Em, only to find me.

She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.

It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.

She paced her room all day, tossed sleeplessly in her bed all night. At dusk, she sat in her window and poured all her longing and desire into her songs, hoping he would somehow hear her and return. And he did.

In his homilies, this old Jesuit always talked about desire, and how we were connected by our desires. He said the most basic human desire was the desire to be desired by one you desire.

Staring into the half light, the queen struggles with wants and needs to which she can give no names. It is not the willow she desires, nor the rose. It is something else…something that eludes her.

The person in the song is really addressing a powerful and constant state of yearning more than he is any real lover. It's the state of this yearning that torments him, yet he also loves his torment. He needs it. Because he understands that being able to feel this yearning so exquisitely is his secret strength.

He missed him like he would miss the sun if it fell out of the sky.

I was the forlorn seeker after a relationship which was always beyond my reach.

Desire is an end in itself: it seeks only more desire, not fixation on a specific object.29

You won't want what you cannot have

They never forget what they can't have

tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote.

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote.

Yes, and sometimes the melancholy expression would have in it a touch of soft yearning, as if Claggart could even have loved Billy but for fate and ban.

You can't miss what you never had.

Next to me, Saiman smiled. We all want what we can't have, Kate. I want you, you want love, and he wants to break my neck.

I know a man who is in love with my friend. He loves her absolutely. The only thing he wants in return is for her to love him." Saiman arched his eyebrows, imitating me. "And?" You're the exact opposite of him. You lack the capacity to love, so you want to smother mine as well.

There is a shortage of you in my life.

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone.

You're the kind of man a man wants when a man wants a man.

I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.

Can't you just like a girl who likes you back?' 'None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want.