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Quotes About Longing

One day I'll wake up and this will all be a dream. I'll be whole again and you will be without me.
~ Unknown
Sometimes when I'm alone and listing to music, it brings back so many memories of you.
~ Unknown
I wish I had someone to love me as much as I could love them. It's hard being alone when everyone else you know has someone to hold them.
~ Unknown
They always say you must be patient, for you do not find true love, but true love finds you. What they don't say is how to handle going unnoticed your whole life and expecting to be found.
~ Unknown
I see those couples, so in love. Makes me wonder if I'll ever be like that.
~ Unknown
The person that screams 'Single,' is usually the person that would do anything to be in a relationship.
~ Unknown
Dear cupid, I don't really know what the point is in making me fall in love with someone I can't have.
~ Unknown
Watching a romantic movie and getting pissed off about your non-existent love life.
~ Unknown
Every boy wants a good girl to be bad just for him. and every girl wants a bad boy to be good just for her.
~ Unknown
To live without you, only that would be torture." "A day alone, only that would be death.
~ Charles Addams
...it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death.
~ Charlotte Bronte
Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.
~ Victor Hugo
The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.
~ Willa Cather
I long to kiss the image of my death.
~ William Henry Drummond
I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst.Death isn't just an idea.
~ Mary Oliver
As long as I have a want I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch Which hurts and is desired.
~ William Shakespeare
We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content to wait, we would all have forever in the end.
~ Jessica Khoury, Origin
She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more
~ Alan Brennert, Moloka'i
We are all created by desire and we all die because of desire.
~ Santosh Kalwar
I know I should look away, let him grieve in private, but I cannot. The sweet girl that I knew only briefly is the key to this gentle beast who has captured my heart.
~ Unknown
Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her would finally be too much for him.
~ Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island
He may take long walksin the raining darkalmost aimlesslyto a spot of soaked grassin a neighbor's open field.He's decided this is the placefor you and him to meet again.
~ Kristen Henderson
I miss you with the very edge of my skin.It winces in absence, a giant muscle contracting.
~ Unknown