Yearning
I love how it makes me feel when I read, listen to, watch the slow burn and yearn. What are books, movies, songs, art that make you feel this? I’m thinking Pride and Prejudice or While You Were Sleeping

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anna · Answer

Heartstopper: Can't believe no one's mentioned it yet. So pure and full of yearning.

grace cady · Answer

in the mood for love: swoony, stunning cinematography, all the yearning. i once received a dvd of this in the mail from a dear friend and he is now my boyfriend.

Alexis Abrams-Bourke · Answer

Into the Blue: This book got me so good and the themes of yearning are strong. It’s long but I read it in 4 days…and destroyed my sleep in the process.

Amu Killada · Answer

BIBI - 책방오빠 문학소녀 (Scott and Zelda) LIVE M/V: Turn on the captions to understand the lyrics. It’s more of a yearning song than an overtly sexual one, which I prefer anyway. I’m much more drawn to that kind of longing than songs that are explicitly sexual.

Liz Corkery · Answer

John of John: Both romantic yearning and the unnamable yearning for the feeling that life has begun.

Francesca McConchie · Answer

Simple Song: This song transports me to those extreme high school crush longing times

Francesca McConchie · Answer

The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Richard Flanagan): a masterpiece

Sealligator · Answer

Emma Portner & Matt Luck Dancing In The Dark: Every few years I remember this exists and am freshly bowled over.

Kate · Answer

Atonement by Ian McEwan: Yearning the the max, heavy subject matter but a beautiful read

Eric F · Answer

Something Akin to Lust - Telefon Tel Aviv ❤️‍🔥: Let it play from start to finish and wash over you.

Dylan · Answer

Desire - Under Your Spell: i don't think i will ever tire of this perfect song

Dylan · Answer

Booksmart: Ridiculously fun and silly and sweet

Dylan · Answer

Notting Hill (1999): My mother Julia + my father Hugh + a stellar supporting cast = I would gladly watch this every day for the rest of my damn life.

Dylan · Answer

The Last Dinner Party - Nothing Matters: from the second i heard this song i was LOCKED THE FUCK IN.

and you can hold me / like he held her / and i will fuck you like nothing matters
my angsty inner child is screaming. also the lead singer Abigail Morris is a babe.

Dylan · Answer

Fleetwood Mac - Silver Springs: Perform this duet with your ex (maintaining eye contact the entire song) to have the crowd gossiping about you for years after

Dylan · Answer

Mark Ronson & Miley Cyrus - Nothing Breaks Like a Heart: i am still obsessed with this song seven years later

Dylan · Answer

Arlo Parks - Ambiguous Desire: sexy sensual soft dreamy dancey delicious. i can't get enough of her voice.

Dylan · Answer

Ethel Cain: Southern Gothic gorgeousness

Dylan · Answer

Tove Lo - Dancing On My Own: I mean Robyn's version is pop perfection but i love Tove's stripped down take on this. Sweden represent!

original by robyn below:

Dylan · Answer

Robyn - Dancing On My Own: crying in the club vibes

Dylan · Answer

10 Things I Hate About You (1999): I will simply never get sick of this cinematic masterpiece. Heath Ledger had the power to turn me straight.

Dylan · Answer

Lykke Li - Unchained Melody: is this the saddest song of all time? maybe it's not sad to everyone. it's up there for me. lykke li's vocals are hauntingly beautiful.

original by the righteous brothers below (but i always mix it up and think it's roy orbison):

Dylan · Answer

Past Lives (2023): "But the truth I learned here is, you had to leave because you're you. And the reason I liked you is because you're you. And who you are is a person who leaves. But for him, you're the person who stays."

GOD I LOVE CINEMA

Dylan · Answer

Heated Rivalry (2025): This year I hope we are all coming to the cottage & if you don't know what that means then allow me to introduce you to the collective psychosis & remarkable work of art known as Heated Rivalry

Dylan · Answer

Fleabag (2016): Ten years later and still a fucking masterpiece.

Dylan · Answer

Lykke Li - The Afterparty: being so sad while also being so sexy is BACK BABY and so is the Swedish queen of yearning

Dylan · Answer

Lykke Li - U Got It Bad: the swedish singer songwriter makes yearning sexy and WOW this cover is sooo hot

original by usher below:

Dylan · Answer

it seems like nobody wants to achingly yearn these days: bring back yearning

Kay · Answer

Song of Achilles

Jeanine Nault · Answer

Romeo + Juliet (1996): The aquarium scene!! The soundtrack!!

Jeannette · Answer

Brief Encounter (1945): Oh, the yearning! A classic.

Lizzie · Answer

Josh & Donna on The West Wing: Yearning of the millennial optimism variety

sunset strip mall · Answer

One Day: let me tell you that this is billed as a romantic comedy and NO!!! IT IS NOT!!!! be warned!! this mini series is so bingeable and also completely devastating: the main actors are so good that even though the story is so over the top and kind of FUCKED in some KEY PLACES, this is way more than just a TV romance dramedy. the actors' chemistry is insane and they play their parts so well that their characters – and their characters' relationship – feels super three-dimensional, loving, charged, complicated, NECESSARY, and soooo real. i really don't want to spoil anything but yes the yearning is so strong. also: watch with like, nine boxes of kleenex

JJ · Answer

Right In Time - Lucinda Williams: No one does yearning quite like Lucinda.

Shannon · Answer

In the Mood for Love: We got plot, we got visuals, we got music, we got unmatched chemistry and acting. Every watch leaves me mulling over little moments for days.

day · Answer

moonlit winter: if you like your yearning with a big helping of repression then this is your rec! a quiet, snowy, contemplative movie about what could be if you open your heart. always warms up a winter night for me.

Yearning I love how it makes me feel when I read, listen to, watch the slow burn and yearn. What are books, movies, songs, art that make you feel this? I’m thinking Pride and Prejudice or While You Were Sleeping

Heartstopper

in the mood for love

Into the Blue

BIBI - 책방오빠 문학소녀 (Scott and Zelda) LIVE M/V

John of John

Simple Song

The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Richard Flanagan)

Emma Portner & Matt Luck Dancing In The Dark

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Something Akin to Lust - Telefon Tel Aviv ❤️‍🔥

Desire - Under Your Spell

Booksmart

Notting Hill (1999)

The Last Dinner Party - Nothing Matters

Fleetwood Mac - Silver Springs

Mark Ronson & Miley Cyrus - Nothing Breaks Like a Heart

Arlo Parks - Ambiguous Desire

Ethel Cain

Tove Lo - Dancing On My Own

Robyn - Dancing On My Own

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

Lykke Li - Unchained Melody

Past Lives (2023)

Heated Rivalry (2025)

Fleabag (2016)

Lykke Li - The Afterparty

Lykke Li - U Got It Bad

it seems like nobody wants to achingly yearn these days

Song of Achilles

Romeo + Juliet (1996)

Brief Encounter (1945)

Josh & Donna on The West Wing

One Day

Right In Time - Lucinda Williams

In the Mood for Love

moonlit winter