Yearning Quotes

“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, The Dovekeepers

“Years of longing collapse into this one kiss. Everything I’ve held back, everything I’ve buried, surges to the surface. My hand rests on her cheek, fingers delicately brushing skin as velvety as I remember it from my dreams.”
― Tricia Newlan, Echoes of One Night: Forbidden Love Romance

“This shouldn’t be happening. I’ve spent many nights pushing aside my memories of her. But in the blink of an eye, here she is resetting my fantasies as if it were yesterday”
― Tricia Newlan, Echoes of One Night: Forbidden Love Romance

“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, Drowning Mermaids

“The fairest things have fleetest end,
Their scent survives their close:
But the rose's scent is bitterness
To her who loved the rose.”
― Francis Thompson, Complete Poetical Works of Francis Thompson

“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.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

“I wonder
if you ever read my poems
and wish
they were written
for you.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“As we enter the path of transformation, the most valuable thing we have working in our favor is our yearning.”
― Cynthia Bourgeault, The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind

“Все туй копнение в духът,
все туй скиталчество из път,
на който не съзирам края.

И поглед вечно устремен,
напред, към утрешния ден,
без там пристанище да зная...”
― Пейо Яворов, Стихотворения и проза

“They say "ya gotta stay hungry"...
Hey Baby...I'm just about starvin' tonight!”
― Bruce Springsteen

“And we who loved the world must learn the language of absence: days foreshortened, empty rooms, the irrevocable distance between the goodbye and the letting go.”
― Joe Bolton, The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990

“Nondum amabam, et amare amabam”
― St. Augustine of Hippo

“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, Naked on the Moon

“The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.”
― David Quammen, Wild Thoughts from Wild Places

“I know that the fact that I am always searching for God, always struggling to discover the fullness of Love, always yearning for the complete truth, tells me that I have already been given a taste of God, of Love and of Truth. I can only look for something that I have, to some degree, already found. How can I search for beauty and truth unless that beauty and truth are already known to me in the depth of my heart? It seems that all of us human beings have deep inner memories of the paradise that we have lost.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World

“I was at peace before you came; why have you disturbed me? You have given me new wants and now your trifle with me as if my heart were as whole as yours [...]”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mathilda

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― You

“ولكنّه أراد السرور ساعة، ولو خدع نفسه وغالطَ رأيه.”
― نجيب محفوظ, خان الخليلي

“My greatest weakness has always been my desire for love. It is a yawning chasm within me, and the more than I reach for it, the more easily I am tricked. I am a walking bruise, an open sore. If Oak is masked, I am a face with all the skin ripped off. Over and over, I have told myself that I need to guard against my own yearnings, but that hasn't worked.

I must try something new.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Instead she sighed, and he withered.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Every Spiral of Fate

“She gave me a taste of her love, and even though it was very much juvenile, it was strong enough to shake the entire course of a growing man’s life.”
― Noyar Cecil, Cursed by Denial : A Dark Second-Chance Forced Marriage Romance

“I was dead, before. Now she has touched the life of me, the quick of me; she has put back my flesh and opened me up. Everything is changed.”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

“Holding on to hope, she smiled at Gabriel. He looked beautiful, all shadowy and blushed in the last breath of day, and made luminous by her secret wishes.”
― India Holton, The Geographer's Map to Romance

“Sometime I am disappointed with love. I thought that when you were in love, it would always be right there, starting you in the face, reminding you every moment that you love this person. It seems that it isn't always like that. Sometimes I know that I love Jamie, but I don't feel it, and I wonder what it would be like to be with someone else.

I love him the most when we fight and I am scared that he will leave me. After we fight, I want so much to be close ot him, and the next day I want his hand in mine every minute. Sometimes he loves me more than I love him, and he wants me to pay attention to him, but I wish he would leave me alone so that I could go back to reading or talking to Angie about Mrs. Adams. Sometimes we both love each other a lot and its hard to hang up at night, and I wish it could always be like that.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“Deep in his heart, Yechiel-Nachman had made peace with his prayers going unanswered. Because prayer was the pure yearning for compassion and justice, whereas life was life: cruel, dispiriting, insulting. It was therefore only natural that two such contrasting worlds could never converge.”
― Etgar Keret, Autocorrect: Stories

“Yearning is not only for the past, for something that was. Yearning also means that there is something we do not like about the present. If yearning were only about the past, we would simply spend some time with our memeories, and then switch gears to focus on whatever is happening in the present. But the present moment can be full of pain when we are grieving, which makes the past all the more desirable. If the present has little to say for itself, or if we feel unable to shift our attention and we do not even know what the present has to offer, the more likely it is that yearning will persist.”
― Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

“We were born to inherit the stars”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“Do you want one?” she offered.
I did want one and said yes. She lit the cigarette for me, and I thought about the fact that she was always giving me things to put in my mouth. Was this girl my worst nightmare?”
― Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

“That version of us is long gone. Five years buried. So why is it still breathing? I feel it right now, the pulse of something I thought dead.”
― Roxana Lucas, No Hard Feelings

“A lover should beg. This was maybe the most important qualification: that the man should be willing to make himself pathetic. That he should grovel at the feet of the woman's excellence.”
― Erin Somers, The Ten Year Affair