202 Quotes About Yearning

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

I know. They never let you be famous and happy.” He lifted an eyebrow. “I’ll tell you a secret”.“Tell me.” I loved it when he was like this. “I’m going to be the first”. He took my palm and held it to his. “Swear it”.“Why me?” “Because you’re the reason. Swear it.

Eleanor West spent her days giving them what she had never had, and hoped that someday, it would be enough to pay her passage back to the place where she belonged.

Sometimes, we do ourselves a disservice to yearn for what we've lost. For if we try to find it again, we might discover faults and blemishes memory has been kind enough to erase.

Will I ever be done, transformed in the past tense, or will I always be transforming, better and better until I die?

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.

This moment, I have hoped for it for a very long time. Just the two of us, belonging to each other. What is past is past. -Ruo Xi

Yet she knew too that she was deeply discontented and she sometimes suffered fierce feral moods of confused yearning during which it seemed to her that her whole life was a masquerade and that she was piously acting the part of a kindly affectionate serviceable woman who was just not herself.

WANTI want to hold Shelleywith the force of an eagletaming the wind within its wings.I want to grasp him unfailingly,like a gentle mothdancing with flame.I want to have strength enoughto beat off the beaststhat dwell within his heart.I want to believein impossible promisesand shift the worldso they can be kept.I want to be morethan a girlselling booksin a bankrupt shop.