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Quotes About Longing

A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.
~ Nicolas Cage
I must see her and press her to my heart. I love her to the point of madness, and I cannot continue to be separated from her. If she no longer loved me, I would have nothing left to do on earth.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I understand with love comes pain, but why did I have to love so much?
~ Buddha
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
~ Unknown
Love is the expression of simplicity in emotion, the unattainable longing that comes so unexpectedly, with great subtlety and bliss
~ Confucius
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
~ William Shakespeare
I am a lover and have not found my thing to love
~ Sherwood Anderson
Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
~ Drew Barrymore
Life without love is a shadow of things that might be
~ Neil Gaiman
A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows. Love can erase an awful past, love can be yours, you'll see at last. To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die. You hope you've found that special rose, 'cause you love and care for the one you chose.
~ Rob Cella
I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.
~ Ani DiFranco
Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do, will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, will never...never forget it.
~ Unknown
The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
~ Shirley Hazzard
Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.
~ John Mayer
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Love is when you're kept up all night thinking of him, and then when you fall asleep, you find him in your dreams.
~ Rene Yasenek
I don't want to pull over right now, but I just downed an Arizona Ice Tea and I'm starting to look for the next closest rest stop.--On Settling down with a girl.
~ John Mayer
Marriage is the result of the longing for the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.
~ Jerry Lewis
Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.
~ Judith Viorst
Marriage is like a fort, those who are in want out, those who are out want in.
~ Arab proverb
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
~ Arabian Proverb
Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.
~ Arabian Proverb
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
~ Michel de Montaigne