Quotes About Longing

Even with him in me I ache for him, and it's that aching that brings me rapidly to the brink.

Is it Rilla-my-Rilla?

If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature prompts us we can't go far wrong.

It was a terrible thing to undergo, but during the year I stood there I had time to think that the greatest loss I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth; but no one can love who has not a heart, and so I am resolved to ask Oz to give me one. - The Tin Woodsman, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz pgs 72-73.

during the year I stood there I had time to think that the greatest loss I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth; but no one can love who has not a heart, and so I am resolved to ask Oz to give me one. If he does, I will go back to the Munchkin maiden and marry her.

Why didn't the Eskimo keep it? she asked, looking at the Magnet with interest. He got tired of being loved and longed for some one to hate him. So he gave me the Magnet and the very next day a grizzly bear ate him. Wasn't he sorry then? she inquired. He didn't say, replied the shaggy man

Even when we're apart, we'll be looking at the same sky!

Why does it have to be hard in life? I was waiting all through life for love. When I finally found it, it is far far away from where I am.

I think so many times we feel like we're lacking something in our lives and we try to fill it with the wrong things. Sometimes it's drugs, sometimes it's a relationship you shouldn't be in.

I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.

When I wake you're never there, but when I sleep you're everywhere.

I'm confused tell me where we go wrong? I was sure that I would be with you for so long.

There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.

We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing of the human soul.

I really have always wanted to be a parent, and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship, I remember thinking how much I still wanted it. But I thought I'd adopt.

I wonder why why why why why why, she ran away?

You speak to me in riddles, you speak to me in rhymes, my body aches to breathe your breath, your word keeps me alive.

I was always trying to win the world, but somewhere I lost you.

Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know how to let him go. I'd never even had him.

I'd love to have a great relationship with my father. And unfortunately... I don't.

My mind is being consumed by you.My body is longing for you. Just one touch or a kiss, And I shall be satiated for a thousand years.

I don't want content. I want slight fear. Anxiety. I want a longing devotion for a twist of absence. The feeling of complete isn't quite pleasing.

You want something enough that you're going to hurt, then you stay, and keep it.

It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have a mum and dad who love and accept me for who I am. But if they never do, it's OK.