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Quotes About Yearn

It's the Sea of Restlessness," he said. "Fills you up with go go go, like you're a bowl full of reaching and wanting but you don't know what you're reaching and wanting for.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Dreams keep the heart alive.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Dress you? I'd rather undress you. We don't belong together. But you belong to me. I want you not as you might be. I want you as you are.
~ Cathleen Schine
In the heir's world, where everything was available, the unattainable had a wild allure.
~ Geraldine Brooks
You attract what you need like a lover
~ Gertrude Stein
The longing she saw that even now danced between them with nowhere to go.
~ Gillian Mears
I could see the longing in your eyes.
~ Gloria Whelan
Our heart is like an unfinished puzzle — that is why we search for the perfect one to complete it.
~ Author Unknown
I wanted it, I wanted it all. All the ardent beginnings and the confused between-times and the bittersweet dregs. All of the aches and sorrows, all of the soaring joys. All of it.
~ Jacqueline Carey
intimacy that can be had, even in a crowded room, when two people want only
~ Jacqueline Winspear
we seem to be present, we desire the same
~ Jacques Derrida
grité que por favor que no volviéramos nunca, nunca jamás a casa. Por supuesto, volvimos.
~ Jaime Gil de Biedma
If I could make you stay, I would," he shouted. "If I had to beat you, chain you, starve you—if I could make you stay, I would." He turned back into the room; the wind blew his hair. He shook his finger at me, grotesquely playful. "One day, perhaps, you will wish I had.
~ James Baldwin
In Lilly's eyes her beautiful clear water eyes there is what I have sought and never found, wanted and never had, hoped for and never discovered. Love.
~ James Frey
That's the worst way to miss somebody. When they're right beside you and yo miss them anyway.
~ James Frey
Unconditional love with someone you've never met is a straightforward feeling that is so overwhelming and fulfilling.
~ Marina Abramovic
Genuine love is so very powerful! Only a fool would take advantage of something that so many people yearn for.
~ Stephanie Lahart
Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
A man's ideal woman is the one he couldn't get.
~ Helen Rowland
The time you think you're missing misses you too.
~ Terri Guillemets
This tension of thwarted longing -- even when they were on their own and could do whatever they liked -- was somehow the whole character of their relationship. Sheila was always frantic for the next thing she didn't have from Neil; the sensation was as painful as wire spooled taut in her chest. She wondered sometimes what would become of them if the spool gave way and the tension slackened.
~ Tessa Hadley
Ich möchte schlafen, aber du mußt tanzen." [ Hyazinthen ]
~ Theodor Storm
In the end the soul is itself the longing of the soulless for salvation.
~ Theodor W Adorno
If I could have all of those things, I wouldn't mind if I touched her or not.
~ Nick Hornby