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Quotes About Longing

And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
~ Pablo Neruda
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
~ Umberto Eco
All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
~ Sappho
Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.
~ Gayle Forman
Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
~ Nicole Kidman
Near, far wherever you are...you're here in my heart.
~ Celine Dion
I realize I waited too long but please don't move on.
~ Drake
Hope you'll forgive me, never meant wrong. Tried to be patient, but waited too long. But I would've came back.. But I would've came back for you.
~ Drake
Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
~ Tara Brach
The feminine in each of us longs for deeper love and tries to find it in intimate relationship, family, or friends.
~ David Deida
It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true.
~ Haruki Murakami
There's no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
~ Ben Harper
There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.
~ Gayle Forman
It's my absolute passionate belief that every single human being, man, woman, or child, is aching to find a face-to-face relationship with God.
~ Sheila Walsh
But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.
~ Daniel Handler
We were in a relationship for eight years, and we maybe saw each other, total, for a year.
~ Izabella Scorupco
I'm not alone, but I am lonely without you.
~ Mary Martin
Might have been a time when I loved her too but you take that away and you'll always be the one.
~ Drake
I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack.
~ Chuck Klosterman
Wherever you go Whatever you do I will be right here waiting for you Whatever it takes Or how my heart breaks I will be right here waiting for you
~ Richard Marx
Had she come all the way for this,To part at last without a kiss?Yea, had she borne the dirt and rainThat her own eyes might see him slainBeside the haystack in the floods?
~ William Morris
the love had grown cold, and in the night he heard it whistling through the chambers of his heart like a lost and gently crying wind.
~ William Peter Blatty
From these he had fled into love, but now the love had grown cold, and in the night he heard it whistling through the chambers of his heart like a lost and gently crying wind.
~ William Peter Blatty
She watched as a beer truck lumbered by with a clink of quivering warm, wet promises.
~ William Peter Blatty