Yearning Quotes

She made him yearn for a future his kind could never have, and a connection he sure as hell didn’t deserve.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

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.

~ Peter Høeg

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.

~ Jaime Allison Parker

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.

~ Mary Balogh

The day we stop yearning, is the day we stop learning.

~ Seekerohan

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)

~ Neena Verma

. . .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.

~ John Daniel Thieme

Because one look into his eyes, and she was drowning in what existed there and didn’t want to surface.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

Agony's PlotA zephyr skimmedacross my creamy skingently kissingwhere the sun had been....

~ Muse

You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?

~ Simona Panova

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

~ Jean Rhys

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

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.

~ Brené Brown

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

~ Kristen Callihan

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

~ Alice Hoffman

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.

~ Robert Walser

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.

~ Terry A O'neal

my heart, sometimes singing in the afternoon, the most haunting song of solitude

~ John J. Geddes

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

~ Brendan Francis

It is rooted deep in your bones, the water calls out to you until it causes you physical pain unless you come to it.

~ Nadia Scrieva

Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others.

~ Bryant Mcgill

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it presents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was the progress in it?Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.

~ Dean Koontz

Success is transient. Failure makes us diligent. But yearning to succeed is constant.

~ Debasish Mridha

What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.

~ Clarice Lispector

The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.

~ David Quammen

If I ever meet you againI’ll just look at your eyesI will try to smile…Smile and savor the momentBut we ‘ll live in our own worldA world devoid of anxiety and acrimony.

~ Balroop Singh

Yet she resigned herself: reverently she put away in the chest of drawers her beautiful dress and even her satin shoes, whose soles had been yellowed by the slippery wax of the dance floor. Her heart was like them: contact with wealth had laid something over it that would not be wiped away.

~ Gustave Flaubert

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.

~ Steve Goodier

As Raimon and Desire listened, Aimeric sang of Carenza's beauty. He sang of the oaths he had given to his lord, the count Bertran, and of another oath, one that he had sworn to Countess Carenza in his heart. He would keep her at the forefront of his thoughts, he would cherish her forever. They would never satisfy their desire, never even kiss one another, but he would be faithful to her until he died.

~ Lisa Goldstein

Oh, do you understand what I mean? Have you ever felt that about the Moon? Have you ever ached with the sheer beauty of it?

~ James Lusarde

Oh Moon, sweet, sweet Moon, I want to be naked on you. I want to be like a flower growing on your surface, unique and mysterious, at home in the wonder of you, as if my naked body would be something growing out of your soil, something precious, a lovely gift on your landscape.

~ James Lusarde

If there is passion, let me feel its heat.I want my heart to beat fast,my breath raspy, my skin to burn.

~ Susie Clevenger

I'm not your blue-eyed Czech,I'm just a brown-eyed girl, A little mix of rock your world,And now you'll never be the same. You grabbed me by the hand,I grabbed you by the neck. I changed the game, and your convictions.So is it criminal to steal a heart or two?I keep them on the shelf, Like only hunters do. I like it hardI like you highI love your mouthWhen it's on mine.I wanna hear you make that sound, Cause it's the greatest thing around. Take it off now,Take from here.Watch your head spin When I come near,And you will lose every time,Cause I won't stop until your mine.And they say who the hell is she?They either love me or they hate me. But still they never look away,This vixen's gonna give you everything.

~ Crystal Woods

We are disposable tonight. We are regrettable tonight. We can’t touch one another without the world imploding, tonight.

~ Adrianna Stepiano

The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one’s grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

How we would like to argue with September, and tell her that in the waiting lies the pleasure! That we here in the world of sensible folk know how to wait without twisted-up bellies and tapping feet and wishing for the sun to hurry up and rise and set. That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever. But though I am sly, I am a trickster, I am even cruel—I cannot lie.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or sweetness.

~ Marion Woodman

She was the wish of his life. He didn’t know how else to say it. He didn’t even know that he could really explain, just that every time he saw her he felt his bones might break under the weight of his wanting. His longing for her.

~ C.j. Carlyon

There was no desire in him for a state or condition, no picture in his mind of the thing to be when he had followed his longing; but only a burning and a will overpowering to journey outward and outward after the earliest risen star.

~ John Steinbeck