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Quotes About Longing

I need you in front of me, saying my name, saying to me... I choose the way you are You, the way you are
~ Brandon Boyd
Hey, my love, you came to me like wine comes to the mouth grown tired of water all the time You quench my heart. And love, you quench my mind.
~ Dave Matthews Band
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?
~ Eddie Vedder
Love in young men for the most part is not love but sexual desire, and its accomplishment is the end
~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Your bones have been my bedframe and your flesh has been my pillow. And I'm waiting for sleep.
~ Ani DiFranco
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
~ Pablo Neruda
If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. and Catherine has a heart as deep as I have: the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough as her whole affection be monopolised by him.
~ Emily Bronte
Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved
~ George Crabbe
In every living thing there is the desire for love.
~ DH Lawrence
Love is a hole in the heart.
~ Ben Hecht
I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.
~ Jim Carrey
Absence in love is like water on fire, a little quickens, but much extinguishes
~ Hannah Moore
I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
~ Frank Zappa
We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
~ Blaise Pascal
Love is basically like leaches .... They suck until they cant get enough of you. Until you find a catapillar that will turn into the butterfly that you have wished for all of your life. Then they just spread their wings and fly away.
~ Milan Kundera
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
None love, but they who wish to love
~ Jean Baptiste Racine
Absence is the enemy of love
~ Proverb
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
~ American Proverb
In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
~ Judy Garland
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
~ Charlie Brown
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth - for your love is more delightful than wine
~ Bible
As you wish' of course what he really ment was, 'i love you'
~ The Princess Bride
The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else.
~ Anonymous