Quotes About Yearn

This direct quote is from Publisher's Weekly about this series: "Hope Harbor is a place of emotional restoration that readers will yearn to visit.

I couldn't take you. So the violin will have to do." He smiled and moved over to the violin case on the bed. "The next time you play, it will be at Loch Gaelkar.

No, but I wish I did. I wish I believed in something," Bradford said wistfully. "It would be pleasant, don't you think?

Perhaps the two of them wouldn't love each other so much if they were allowed to.

You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a happy thing to possess, for nothing on earth - no goal, no person how ever beloved - will answer it. It points to the sky and to the heavens and the stars and when it cannot reach them, it must fall back to pierce your heart.

If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had a taste of the flavor and then had it denied him.

Se infelice è l'innamorato che invoca baci di cui non sa il sapore, mille volte più infelice è chi questo sapore gustò appena e poi gli fu negato.

my love now knew only the heart-rending nostalgia for what it lacked: a where, a surrounding, a before, an after.

M'accorgo che correndo verso Y ciò che più desidero non è trovare Y al termine della mia corsa: voglio che sia Y a correre verso di me, è questa la risposta di cui ho bisogno, cioè ho bisogno che lei sappia che io sto correndo verso di lei ma nello stesso tempo ho bisogno di sapere che lei sta correndo verso di me.

If unhappy is the sweetheart who invokes kisses of which he does not know the flavour, a thousand times more unhappy is who this flavour tasted once and then was denied

Visto che non gli era permesso di cercare Angiolina, il meglio che gli restava da fare era d'attaccarsi a chi nel suo pensiero era perennemente legato a lei.

Even if I now saw you only once, I would long for you through worlds, worlds.

I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could.

some things are just beyond our control and the heart wants what the heart wants whether it makes logical sense or not.

I would rather be a cripple and have your love for all of a single moment than to live as I am without ever having it.

He could not take what he could never keep.

Now you are come! You tremble like a star Poised where, behind earth's rim, the sun has set. Your voice has sung across my heart, but numb And mute, I have no tones to answer.

Then how come you went there?" "I was lonesome. Lonesome takes what it can get.

Sometimes you can't tell how consuming love is until you can see its absence

Sometimes you can't tell how consuming love is until you can see its absence.

Whom now would I love, and who would love me?

Because it was the endless wanting that would break you, I thought. The constant craving for a love that might never be fulfilled that would bring you low, bit by bit, until one day you'd no longer be able to recognize any part of yourself.