“ Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have. Ann Brashares
“ The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. He was given wealth, fame, and power, yet his soul yearned only for spiritual peace so that… Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“ This heart yearns...for the salt of unsmelt airunswept thunderstorms...unknown adventures. Sanober Khan
“ Alone, alone. I am alone – I ache … Yet for the first time, despite all the anguish and the reality problems, I’m here. I feel tranquil, whole, ADULT. Susan Sontag
“ 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. Teresa R. Funke
“ I won’t let you have it. I won’t give you this moment. I won’t let you fill up this valuable organ...I own it. I won’t do it. I can’t think, I won’t think about it. Coco J. Ginger
“ Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying. Richard Yates
“ The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desir… Fernando Pessoa
“ It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her. Charlotte Featherstone
