202 Quotes About Yearning

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

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

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.

But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.

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.

One day incentives may catch up with inflation, but it will never catch up with our aspirations.

Why is love intensified by absence?

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.

Even if the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, keep to your own side; it's where you belong. There you can plant your own grass and tend to it.