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Quotes About Longing

Then, half ashamed, hald joyful, she murmured 'O Machine! O Machine' and raised the volume to her lips. Thrice she kissed it, thrice inclined her head, thrice she felt the delirium of acquiescence.
~ E. M. Forster
When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
~ E. Y. Harburg
Somewhere over the rainbowBluebirds fly.Birds fly over the rainbow—Why then, oh why can't I?
~ E. Y. Harburg
If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?
~ E. Y. Harburg
Last night When we were young Love was a star, A song unsung, Life was so new, So real, so right, Ages ago, Last night.
~ E. Y. Harburg
When I'm not facing the face that I fancy,I fancy the face I face.
~ E. Y. Harburg
when all your smiles should be for me,
~ E.D. Baker
I wonder how long they'll keep me here? Forever, I hope. Until I get cured. I hope they won't cure me; I vow I won't be cured. It's a great deal too pleasant to be mad, and I'll stay so.
~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.
~ E.E. Cummings
Father, it's Wistala. Wistala." Father grimaced. "You're a star, Wistala — I saw you twinkling beneath dear Irelia last night. You, Auron, and Jizara all in a row. I'll be up there soon. Wait.
~ E.E. Knight
You smell heavenly. I slept on your side of your side of the bed because your pillow smells of you.
~ E.L.
I don't know how to make peace with things, were each moment to tear itself away from time to give me a kiss.
~ E.M. Cioran
It isn't possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
~ E.M. Forster
He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most.
~ E.M. Forster
He would not deceive himself so much. He would not – and this was the test – pretend to care about women when the only sex that attracted him was his own. He loved men and always had loved them. He longed to embrace them and mingle his being with theirs. Now that the man who returned his love had been lost, he admitted this.
~ E.M. Forster
I since cricket match do long to talk with one of my arms around you, then place both arms round you and share with you, the above now seems sweeter to me than words can say.
~ E.M. Forster
The ethereal past had blinded him, and the highest happiness he could dream was a return to it.
~ E.M. Forster
He longed for smut, but heard little and contributed less, and his chief indecencies were solitary.
~ E.M. Forster
Her excitement grew as she tried to cut the rope that fastened Leonard to the earth. Woven of bitter experience, it resisted her.
~ E.M. Forster
Amaba a los hombres y siempre los había amado. Ansiaba abrazarlos, mezclar con el de ellos su ser. Ahora que había perdido al hombre que correspondía a su amor, admitía aquello.
~ E.M. Forster
I shall want to live, I tell you.
~ E.M. Forster
All of us, even the sophisticated, yearn for permanence, and to the unsophisticated permanence is the chief excuse for a work of art.
~ E.M. Forster
But all that night his body yearned for Alec's, despite him.
~ E.M. Forster
Alas! that Henry should fade away as reality emerged, and only her love for him should remain clear, stamped with his image like the cameos we rescue out of dreams.
~ E.M. Forster