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Quotes About Longing

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
~ W.S. Merwin
Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for
~ W.S. Merwin
part memory part distance remaining mine in the ways that I learn to miss you
~ W.S. Merwin
How beautiful you must be to have been able to lead me this far with only the sound of your going away
~ W.S. Merwin
Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein.
~ Charlotte Bronte
There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.
~ Jeanette Winterson
How my heart missed beating like this. For him. Only for him.
~ Unknown
If you were given one wish, what would you wish for? To wish no more.
~ J.R. Rim
It's always winter but it's never Christmas.
~ C. S. Lewis
Christmas seems to say that paradise lost and longed for does not have to be paradise given up on.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
You can have anything you want
~ Jenifer Lewis
how often I longed to lovingly administer release! ... to have the courage and the right, after the soul is fled, to stop the poor wretched machine, that exists only to suffer and cause suffering.
~ Blanche Willis Howard
I would like my Dad to be alive so he could see what I am.
~ Ronaldinho
Father's Day makes me wish I could talk to my Dad just one more time, instead of all the time.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
Dad, I left my heart up there.
~ Francis Gary Powers
I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, "I want a Dad." But you won't abide in anyone.
~ Judah Smith
I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.
~ Kim Kardashian
...sometimes I get tired. Sometimes I get bored. And sometimes all I want, more than anything else in the world, is to go on a freaking date.
~ Kiersten White, Paranormalcy
I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
~ Gordon Lightfoot
Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
~ Raymond Chandler
If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness.
~ Nizar Qabbani
If there was no death, everyone would wish for it.
~ Sadegh Hedayat
Take me away from all this Death.
~ Bram Stoker
I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
~ Aleister Crowley