Yearning Quotes
Sylvia Plath
How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
1087Stephanie Laurens
My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.
3849 Ram Mohan
Amidst the chaos of the cities, a part of you always yearns for the silence of the woods.
3406 Frank Lee Raw Honey
He never wanted to see that look of disppointment in her eyes again, yet he couldn't allow himself to be crushed under his own yearning.
2454 Ann Brashares
Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.
1131 Charlotte Featherstone
It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her.
1626 Laini Taylor
Yearning for love made her feel like a cat that was always twining around ankles, meowing Pet me, pet me, look at me, love me.
1478 Richard Yates
Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying.
4013 W.S. Merwin
part memory part distance remaining
mine in the ways that I learn to miss you
2644 Sylvia Plath
I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.
3515 Steve Goodier
There are few qualities more vital than a strong yearning. That desire to reach a little farther, to be a little more, yearning...for a piece of something greater, can often make all the difference.
3137 John Daniel Thieme
. . .in your light, had I learned to love, here
in your beauty, could I speak
knowing of this space close within
as the breath held inside a garden rose, there -
there is no time.
1921 Roberto Hogue
Amazing sex stays with you. It soaks into your skin. It floats through your dreams and has you silently smoldering with delicious remembrances for hours after. It has you craving it days later. And it has you aching for it if you don’t get it for awhile.
3789 Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. He was given wealth, fame, and power, yet his soul yearned only for spiritual peace so that he could silence the shadows in his heart...
1773 Donna Lynn Hope
I don’t miss anyone. If I did I would do something about it. Besides, some people come back...in dreams. That’s when they’re honest.
2320 Neil Bartlett
As he lay there, he was sure that he could still feel the memory of that strange hand cupping the back of his neck; and he couldn't believe how empty his mouth felt, now that it only had his own tongue in it.
3989 Jessica Park
You scream it in everything you do. You’re holding on to what happened because you think that’s all you have.”
“It is all I have.”
“Find more
3676 Michael Bassey Johnson
You'll become that devil overnight, if you want to become that celebrity overnight.
2147 Seekerohan
The day we stop yearning, is the day we stop learning.
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