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Quotes About Longing

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.
~ John Mayer
Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life.
~ Edna O'Brien
If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.
~ Andre Aciman
The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead.
~ John Boorman
There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away.
~ Robert Goolrick
What are you most afraid of?" "Dying. Losing my parents. Staying here for the rest of my life. Never figuring out what I'm supposed to do. Being ordinary. Losing everyone I love.
~ Jennifer Niven
Don't you want to know where I'd go if I could?" Not really, I think. "Where would you go if you could go anywhere?" It comes out bitchier than I mean for it to. He leans forward over the handlebars, eyes on me. "I'd go to Hoosier Hill with a beautiful girl." A
~ Jennifer Niven
I hate you. If only I'd known. If only I'd been enough. I let you down. I wish I could have done something. I should have done something. Was it my fault? Why wasn't I enough? Come back. I love you. I'm sorry.
~ Jennifer Niven
I want her to say my name because then I'll know it's okay and I haven't just lost her forever. But she doesn't, and I can feel a cold, dark feeling growing in the pit of my stomach—every bit as cold and dark as the water
~ Jennifer Niven
For a second, I think he's going to kiss me. For a second, I want him to.
~ Jennifer Niven
You make me happy, Whenever you're around I'm safe inside your smile, You make me handsome, Whenever I feel my nose just seems a bit too round, You make me special, and God knows I've longed to be that kind of guy to have around, You make me love you, And that could be the greatest thing my heart was ever fit to do… You make me lovely, and it's so lovely to be lovely to the one I love…
~ Jennifer Niven
We tread water, looking at each other, and suddenly there's not enough water in the world to clean away my dirty thoughts. She
~ Jennifer Niven
My hand feels cold without his.
~ Jennifer Niven
You have been in every way all anyone could be. If anyone could have saved me it would have been you.
~ Jennifer Niven
Bugün de olmaz," diye m?r?ldand?m. "Çünkü bana gülümsedi.
~ Jennifer Niven
You make me happy, Whenever you're around I'm safe inside your smile, You make me handsome, Whenever I feel my nose just seems a bit too round, You make me special, and God knows I've longed to be that kind of guy to have around, You make me love you, And that could be the great thing my heart was ever fit to do....
~ Jennifer Niven
I want to lean in and get a whiff of him and rest my head on his shoulder or maybe make out with his neck.
~ Jennifer Niven
I like the idea of something that can give you those feelings all the time. I want something that can give you those feelings all the time. I want something like that, and then I look at Violet and think: There she is.
~ Jennifer Niven
I like the idea of something that can give you those feelings all the time.
~ Jennifer Niven
It feels somehow epic and fragile, and I want the night to last forever, and knowing it can't already has made me sad.
~ Jennifer Niven
Me trying to concentrate on college, on life, when all I'm doing is thinking about him.
~ Jennifer Niven
I remember how she looked at me the same way even when I wasn't.
~ Jennifer Niven
Are you totally into Violet Markey, like forever kind or the she's-interesting-for-right-now kind?
~ Jennifer Niven
I like the idea of something that can give you those feelings all the time. I want something like that, and then I look at Violet and think: There she is.
~ Jennifer Niven