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Quotes About Longing

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
~ Robert Frost
Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had
~ Sara Teasdale
I've grown tired of love You are the trouble with me I watch you walk right by
~ Anne Sexton
There is no fury like a woman searching for a new lover
~ Cyril Connolly
In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious
~ Marcel Proust
Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself
~ Thomas More
All love is unrequited. All of it.
~ J Michael Straczynski
All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.
~ Rita Hayworth
There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love
~ Giovanni Papini
Who knows how long I've loved you, you know I love you still. Will I wait a lonely lifetime? If you want me to I will.
~ The Beatles
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.
~ Henry Rollins
Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.
~ Abraham Cowley
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
All lovers live by longing, and endure; summon a vision and declare it pure
~ Theodore Roethke
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
~ Benjamin Franklin
All I know is that you love me...in my dreams.
~ Victor Hugo
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
Only love is like an arrow to your heart; the more you try to take it out, the more pain and blood you get
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I Dont Believe that Anybody Feels the Way I Do about You now.
~ Unknown
Lonely is a man without love.
~ Dorothy Parker
The problem with loving is that pets don't last long enough and people last too long.
~ e e cummings
Although we've come to the end of the road, still I can't let you go, it's unnatural, you belong to me, I belong to you .
~ Woody Allen