202 Quotes About Yearning

Now she looked at Matthias, his hair coming in thick and gold, long enough that it was just starting to curl over his ears. She loved the sight of him, and she hated it too. Because he wouldn’t give her what she wanted. Because he knew how badly she needed it.

ولكنّه أراد السرور ساعة، ولو خدع نفسه وغالطَ رأيه.

But, in truth, there really was no reason at all.He just found her to be his one and only, thus sincerely yearned for her.

There was a word from a myth: sathaz . It was the desire to possess that which can never be yours. It meant senseless, hopeless yearning, the way a gutter child might dream of being king, and it came from the tale of the man who loved the moon.

Do all lovers feel like they're inventing something?

There is an inimitable yearning in my soul that pines for your soul.

Anna, are you asleep?" He imagined Anna lying awake, eyes wide, staring at the ceiling, her heart full of yearning, but there was only silence."I love you, Anna," he whispered, and he hung up the phone.

The two of them smelled strange, like hope, like something fucking with the fine edges of my memory, something I was hungry for but couldn’t remember the taste of.

I wasn’t at all comforted by that idea, by the possibility of multiple afterlives and a soul hungering through them for eternity.