Emily Dickinson Quotes

Yearning is the word that best describes a common psychological state shared by many of us, cutting across boundaries of race, class, gender, and sexual practice.

Desire is important.

Longing is all that lasts.

Everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.

If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

Everybody's got a hungry heart.

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself.

What love is depends on where you are in relation to it. Secure in it, it can feel as mundane and necessary as air - you exist within it, almost unnoticing. Deprived of it, it can feel like an obsession; all consuming - a physical pain.

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

I think people desperately want to feel love.

There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.

When I want a thing, I want it dreadfully.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Everyone yearns for love, and everyone struggles for love.

When you want something that is very dear to you, somewhere along the line, you become the child.

She had never experienced the pain of unsatisfied desire before. It hurt. It hurt like nothing she'd ever felt, and there seemed to be no remedy

He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.

You’ve got me feeling like you’re that something I’ve been missing.