Yearn Quotes

“If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.
”
― Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

“Seduce yourself first.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“The first time I heard you laugh,
I only wanted to say funny things
so you would always be laughing.
You know what happens to chocolate
when you leave it out in the sun?
I’m that unfortunate chocolate
and you, you are the laughing sun.
For this reason, I am offering myself to you
not as a martyr or some selfless fool,
but as a self-indulgent moth
who actively pursues the light
without much fear for the flame.
The moth who revels in the heat
and declares:
Burn me.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after you. It is my duty."
"If you wish to suffer, you do so of your own free will, not on my behalf. Or Father's or Grandmama's or anyone's. You are a fine physician, Thomas. Why is that not enough?"
"Because it isn't," he says with a rare candor. "Only this and the hope of nothing more? A quiet respectability with no true greatness or heroism in it, with only my reputation to recommend me. So you see, Gemma, you are not the only one who cannot rule her own life.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“Usually, when I dream of flying
I am simply flapping my arms
and somehow I lift off and glide through the sky.
Last night was different.
I missed you so much
and my yearning was so powerful
that I sprouted wings like a phoenix
and soared to reach you.
And now I finally understand:
if you see lovers on a roof, do not worry.
Surely, love has metamorphosed them.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“A spark
of every fire we seek
is already within us.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“The way a love letter longs to be read
I long for you.
The way the poor Kane longs for his sled
I long for you.

The way the moon longs for the dark of night
I long for you.
The way a nestling bird longs for flight
I long for you.

I am blessed
and I am cursed.
I have waited for so long.
I need you to come to me.
And remind me
of who I was once.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“To see her is to be seduced by her.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“ribbing, moss, seed, and garter are all balanced and combine the yin and yang of knitting”
― Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“My priority is not about grades. I yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Dare to dream and yearn to learn to cross the boundary of fears and doubts.”
― Debasish Mridha

“And finally, she saw him smile. It chased the shadows from his face and made him a boy again. It was a smile that a woman could grow to yearn for.”
― Joss Alexander, Tainted Innocence

“I can't tell whether a revived man would appreciate his second chance or yearn for the stolen serenity.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“We yearn for a full moon night every night!”
― Avijeet Das

“The more you know, the more you yearn for knowledge.”
― Debasish Mridha

“If you yearn to learn, you’ll learn to earn.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“Throughout her life, Highsmith looked for women whom she could worship. Sex was far from the most important factor in any relationship; rather, it was this near-divine quality for which she yearned.”
― Andrew Wilson, Patricia Highsmith, ζωή στο σκοτάδι

“There is a proverbial ecstasy in the way we yearn for begone moments.”
― Avijeet Das

“There is a proverbial ecstasy in the way we yearn for memories of bygone days!”
― Avijeet Das

“The good news: It seems like you really want more of God. And, from what I read, that’s a really good thing. You’re going to get what you’re looking for.
If you want more of God, you’re going to yearn. And yearning isn’t bad. Yearning happens when you love.”
― Brant Hansen, Blessed Are the Misfits: Great News for Believers who are Introverts, Spiritual Strugglers, or Just Feel Like They're Missing Something

“He yearned for a glimpse of her throughout the day,
Only at nights he could see her,
Be with her,
And she would be gone when he woke up.”
― Anonymous

“To yearn for love is for kingdom reality to residue in your psyche”
― Sunday Adelaja

“True emotions yearn for genre love of God”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed”
― Sunday Adelaja

“A heroic woman cannot walk away without checking how she can be of help to someone because she yearns to help those in need.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman

“To create art is to dance to the tune of your he[art].”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“He yearned for water like it was his lover.”
― David Davis, Waterman: The Life and Times of Duke Kahanamoku

“There's a particular kind of torture to the waiting, the pining, the slowest burn, like setting fire to wet logs. One that flickers and pops like grease in a pan. Wondering if you'll yearn for him all four years.”
― Ebony LaDelle, You've Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs

“There is wanting and then there is wanting. It's ridiculous that the word want covers so much. Like, wanting a cool car is not the same thing as wanting Quinn. One of those is surface, material. The other kind of want is molecular. It's more like a tug. Like all these fishing lines are hooking into me and yanking. You can decide to want a car. You can't decide to want a person. Not in the same way.

[...]

Maybe this is the difference between want and yearn: Want can be flipped on and off like a fuse. Want can be indulged in or set aside. Yearn is something else. You can hear it in the shape of the word. It sounds like the noise a person might make while lying on their stomach on the rim of a well, and reaching down into it, toward the dark. The little grunt they might emit as they reached and reached down into the belly of the well but never quite caught whatever it was they were reaching for.”
― GennaRose Nethercott, Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories