Yearning Quotes
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"He is a unicorn. I want to gently capture him and bring him back to my lab for research."
Amanda Mosher, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
"The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are."
"My earnest desire for you has brought me to a point, where the life I've imagined we shall have, seems like a distant memory."
"Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying."
"Earning is a product of learning. You're only one letter away from earning more."
"To adore one has to yearn."
"I wonderif you ever read my poemsand wish they were writtenfor you."
"If you yearn to learn, you’ll learn to earn."
"Love is circumstantial we can love anyone if need be and losing the one we love is the singular catastrophe. Time does not heal it. Every present moment yearns for even the roughest past."
"At the core of her senseless actions, she vaguely perceived that she yearned for something. A something that would provide her with a sure sense of fulfillment. But she could not fathom what that something might be."
"Usually, when I dream of flying I am simply flapping my arms and somehow I lift off and glide through the sky. Last night was different. I missed you so much and my yearning was so powerful that I sprouted wings like a phoenix and soared to reach you. And now I finally understand: if you see lovers on a roof, do not worry. Surely, love has metamorphosed them."
"I won’t let you have it. I won’t give you this moment. I won’t let you fill up this valuable organ...I own it. I won’t do it. I can’t think, I won’t think about it."
"We ache with the yearningthat turns half into wholeand offer no excusesfor the beauty of our souls."
"If your art is calling to you, its doing so for a reason. You are feeling a pull toward something for which your soul is yearning."
Teresa R. Funke, Bursts of Brilliance for a Creative Life blog
"It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what."
"Alone, alone. I am alone – I ache … Yet for the first time, despite all the anguish and the reality problems, I’m here. I feel tranquil, whole, ADULT."
Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
"When you love someone, you end up caring about each and every person they love. When you hate someone, you end up caring about every single person who hates them."
"this heart yearns...for the salt of unsmelt airunswept thunderstorms...unknown adventures."
"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..."
"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."
"Maybe she had it wrong all this time and her empty heart could never be filled by his ingenious broken spirit. Maybe this yearning had nothing to do with him, and everything to do with her."
"He: I have this crazy yearning in my heart, to make you mine.She: Sure, go ahead and make me your bad habit!"
"i am infinitely yearningbrimmingand overflowingin wordsi discoverit’s another wayfor meto be in tears."
"There was old sex in the room and loneliness, and expectation, of something without a shape or name. I remember that yearning, and was never the same as the hands that were on us there and then, in the small of the back, or out back, in the parking lot, or in the television room with the sound turned down and only the pictures flickering over lifting flesh. We yearned for the future How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?"
"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."
Roberto Hogue, Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed
"Each night I lie and dream about the oneWho kissed me and awakened my desireI spent a single hour with him aloneAnd since that hour, my days are layed with fire."
"It’s like when you’re excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means you’re happy, too."
"But the walls of my resolvemortared with stubbornnesshave been breached by circumstancesI cannot handle alone."
"I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it."
"Life shows us all colours, some bright and some shades of grey,Some accept with a smile, while some frown in every wayThoughts and memories never end but life does one day.Whole age passes by in wait of that old time to return,But those old days once gone, will never come back again,Rather we can just cherish them in the memories that burn,In the back of our mind and make us remember,How we used to be so crazy,In those old days…"
"You'll become that devil overnight, if you want to become that celebrity overnight."
"She made him yearn for a future his kind could never have, and a connection he sure as hell didn’t deserve."
"The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning."
"She wondered how many towns like this existed all over the country?Bucolic scenery on the outside, with its own private soap operas, gossips and hells on the inside. She wondered if the suburbs in huge cities were merely a collection of small towns, piled on top of each other and each place was ultimately the same. The thought struck her as exceedingly depressing. However, her spirits were not in their best shape."
"He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a placeto be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again toleave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears.Very much on the verge of tears.And very frightened."
"The day we stop yearning, is the day we stop learning."
"One is in 'Waiting'Even after it's overGrief comes to stayNever up for closure...There is no escape everOne is always yearningGrief envelops thoseLeft behind in 'waiting'...‘Staying stuck’ in painHiding deep in the heart'Let go' ! Yes, but howTo make a new start...One has to live in theDark blind ‘Black-hole’Until Light would graceRekindling a 'Whole'(Page 49)"
". . .in your light, had I learned to love, here in your beauty, could I speakknowing of this space close withinas the breath held inside a garden rose, there— there is no time."
"Because one look into his eyes, and she was drowning in what existed there and didn’t want to surface."
"Agony's PlotA zephyr skimmedacross my creamy skingently kissingwhere the sun had been...."
"You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?"
"She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it."
"The fairest things have fleetest end,Their scent survives their close:But the rose's scent is bitternessTo her who loved the rose."
Francis Thompson, Complete Poetical Works of Francis Thompson
"Grief seems to create losses within us that reach beyond our awareness--we feel as if we're missing something that was invisible and unknown to us while we had it, but is now painfully gone...Longing is not conscious wanting; it's an involuntary yearning for wholeness, for understanding, for meaning, for the opportunity to regain or even simply touch what we've lost."
"Because we know he was simply a man, with weakness and frailties. Who yearned for the same things all of us do--to love and be loved"
"I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream."
"And the pine trees that smell so wonderfully of spicy power. Shall I never see a mountain pine again? Really that would be no misfortune. To forgo something: that also has its fragrance and its power."
"I’m burning in despair Love which you distanced from me Return once again I’ll forgive you againReturn, Page 19"
"She didn’t care if the world thought she was pretty. All she wanted was that special someone to reach beyond the surface and discover her heart."
"my heart, sometimes singing in the afternoon, the most haunting song of solitude"
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