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Quotes About Yearned

SHE NEEDED HIM. AND HE WAS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND. (P:7)
~ Alan Dean Foster
I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have. Well, people were that way.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.
~ Aldous Huxley
I think I wished for you all of my life.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.
~ Anne Sexton
we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. I didn't know what I wanted
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ma'am, I said, I'd have liked it, having you for a ma.
~ Louis L'Amour
Oh, Jo, can't you? Teddy, dear, I wish I could!
~ Louisa May Alcott
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
~ Salman Rushdie
You need something more from me—something I wasn't able to give you before.
~ Collette West, Inside Game
If she felt my gaze upon her, I assume she was accustomed to being stared at, just as I was used to wanting what I could not have.
~ Alice Hoffman
All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem
~ Hunter S. Thompson
He longed for smut, but heard little and contributed less, and his chief indecencies were solitary.
~ E.M. Forster
Besides, secretly, without knowing it herself, she had been waiting for a Beast to go to.
~ Francesca Lia Block
My writing was all about you; all I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast.
~ Franz Kafka
All I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast.
~ Franz Kafka
No one has ever been hopelessly in love with me. No, Carlos says. You always gave them hope, didn't you?
~ Andrew Sean Greer
If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.
~ John Donne
I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.
~ Patrick Ness, More Than This
Lei insomma s'era meritata Nino perché riteneva che amarlo significasse provare ad averlo, non sperare che lui la volesse.
~ Elena Ferrante
She deserved him because she thought that to love him meant to try to have him, not to hope that he would want her.
~ Elena Ferrante
Still, I wanted to believe; indeed I longed to; and, in the end, how much of belief comes from longing?
~ Margaret Atwood
You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.
~ Gary Shteyngart
Uni on varannut heidät itselleen koko yöksi
~ Sapfo