Quotes about Yearn
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
I think she thought she love him. But he got so many of us. All needing somethin'.
— Alice Walker
All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.
— CS Lewis
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
— Anonymous
My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
— Anonymous
Send home my long strayed eyes to me,Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.
— John Donne
Why do you do this to me? she cried. Why do you make the things I have chosen seem hateful to me, if you have nothing to give me instead? No, I have nothing to give you instead, he said, sitting up and turning so that he faced her. If I had, it should be yours, you know.
— Edith Wharton
I always feel how necessary you are to me. But when you are absent, I become still more sensible of it and look around in vain for that satisfaction which you alone can bestow.
— Alexander Hamilton
Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
— Nicole Kidman
Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.
— Alice Walker
Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.
— Alice Walker
I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.
— Virginia Woolf