202 Quotes About Yearning

The ocean exerts an inexorable pull over sea people wherever they are-in a bright-lit, inland city or the dead center of a desert-and when they feel the tug there is no choice but somehow to reach it and stand at its immense, earth-dissolving edge, straightaway calmed.

They no longer wanted to entice anyone; all they wanted was to catch a glimpse for as long as possible of the reflected glory in the great eyes of Odysseus

My earnest desire for you has brought me to a point, where the life I've imagined we shall have, seems like a distant memory.

The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one’s grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible.

Yet she resigned herself: reverently she put away in the chest of drawers her beautiful dress and even her satin shoes, whose soles had been yellowed by the slippery wax of the dance floor. Her heart was like them: contact with wealth had laid something over it that would not be wiped away.

If your art is calling to you, its doing so for a reason. You are feeling a pull toward something for which your soul is yearning.

There had to be one universe — just this one — where we don’t end up together. Here and now just happens to be it.

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If there is passion, let me feel its heat.I want my heart to beat fast,my breath raspy, my skin to burn.