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Quotes About Longing

You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter seem long. You are the breathless hush of evening that trembles on the brink of a lovely song.
~ Frank Sinatra
Romantic love is not an emotion. ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind.
~ Helen Fisher
Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.
~ Linda Ronstadt
Only unfulfilled love can be romantic
~ Javier Bardem
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.
~ Jane Austen, Persuasion
I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection
~ Tupac Shakur
The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.
~ George Orwell
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
~ Robert Browning
It is not night when I do see your face.
~ William Shakespeare
I've spent a life time waiting for the right time, now that you're near, the time is here at last.
~ Elvis Presley
The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.
~ Arundhati Roy
Every time I think of you, I always catch my breath.
~ John Waite
...The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.
~ Willam Law
In her beauty rests (both) my death and my life.
~ Maurice Sceve
Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!
~ Ferenc Kazinczy
I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.
~ Ernest Hemingway
happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.
~ Nan Fairbrother
Between now and then, 'til I see you again, I'll be loving you.
~ Collin Raye
Love me, that's all I ask of you...
~ Charles Hart
If I had the stars from the darkest night and the diamonds from the deepest ocean, I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss, for that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'.
~ Bob Dylan
I stare to memorize your face, to kiss you in my mind, love you all the time.
~ Gloria Estefan
The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
~ Alain de Botton
I would have gone too but I wanted to come straight back to you.I kept thinking of you, waiting here, all by yourself, not knowing what was going to happen.
~ Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca