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Quotes About Longing

There is also present in every human being, in everyone's biography-although sometimes harrowing cases of systematic neglect, present in the matter of absence, so if longing for that which never was there then too, deeply suspect, should have been.
~ Paul Ricoeur
Waiting, he thought, was the most miserable condition a man could find himself in. His whole life, he had been waiting for one thing or another.
~ Unknown
Perron did not clearly hear what Ahmed said, but it sounded like, 'It seems to be me they want.
~ Paul Scott
Some people never say the words 'I love you', for like a child they're longing to be told.
~ Paul Simon
Some people never say the words 'I love you'. It's not their style to be so bold. Some people never say those words: 'I love you' But, like a child, they're longing to be told
~ Paul Simon
Bulmasayd?n, aramazd?n beni.
~ Unknown
If you leave me, I'll want to die. Love, Elizabeth Carstensen.
~ Paul Zindel
Dennis had just kissed her once, and she was screaming for a hamburger.
~ Paul Zindel
Then he took her, and it seemed to O that it had been so long since he had that, subconsciously, she realized she had begun to doubt whether he really desired her any longer, and in his act she saw proof of love.
~ Pauline Réage
It was not the caress of her lips the length of him was looking for, but the back of her throat.
~ Pauline Réage
A René por el contrario, se le veía ciego de deseo ante ella, paralizado por un amor que él no había conocido hasta entonces, un amor lleno de inquietud, inseguro de ser correspondido y temeroso de desagradar.
~ Pauline Réage
She did not wish to die, but if torture was the price she had to pay to keep her lover's love, then she only hoped he was pleased that she had endured it. All soft and silent she waited, waited for them to bring her back to him. None
~ Pauline Réage
She did not wish to die, but if torture was the price she had to pay to keep her lover's love, then she only hoped he was pleased that she had endured it. All soft and silent she waited, waited for them to bring her back to him.
~ Pauline Réage
I love you, do whatever you want with me, but don't leave me, for God's sake don't leave me." Who
~ Pauline Réage
In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.
~ Paulo Coelho
I've learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you're with me, even when you're not by my side.
~ Paulo Coelho
Yes, my mind was wandering. I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart someone with whom I could spend a little time without being afraid that i would lose him the next day. With that reassurance, the time would pass more slowly. We could be silent for a while because we'd know we had the rest of our lives together for conversation. I wouldn't have to worry about serious matters, about difficult decisions and hard words.
~ Paulo Coelho
Of all the ways we have found to hurt ourselves, the worse has been through love. We are always suffering because of someone who doesn't love us, or someone who has left us, or someone who won't leave us. If we are alone, it is because no one wants us...
~ Paulo Coelho
That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.
~ Paulo Coelho
Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.
~ Paulo Coelho
Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.
~ Paulo Coelho
she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.
~ Paulo Coelho
I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.
~ Paulo Coelho
If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.
~ Paulo Coelho