Quotes about Yearning

I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.

I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days.

Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self! Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music:—do I wake or sleep?

You are to me an object so intensely desirable that the air I breathe in a room empty of you is unhealthy

I sit, and moan, Like one who once had wings.

I could centre my Happiness in you, I cannot expect to engross your heart so entirely -- indeed if I thought you felt as much for me as I do for you at this moment I do not think I could restrain myself from seeing you again tomorrow for the delight of one embrace. But no -- I must live upon hope and Chance. In case of the worst that can happen, I shall still love you -- but what hatred shall I have for another!

The air I breathe in a room empty of you is unhealthy.

Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.

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Letter home from college boy: "There are 370 boys here - I wish there were 369."

Your heart is like an infinitely large hole, and only God is big enough to fill it.

Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it.