Quotes About Longing

When thou sigh'st, thou sigh'st not wind, But sigh'st my soul away; When thou weep'st, unkindly kind, My life's blood doth decay. It cannot be That thou lov'st me, as thou say'st, If in thine my life thou waste

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again.

She knows what it's like to love someone who cannot love you back. Someone who needs you, holds you, yes, but someone who will never know that love is the knife in your heart.

Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It's unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure as love, except maybe writing a story. And nothing fails as often, except writing stories. And like a story, love must be troubled to be interesting.

It wasn't that I wanted to know her now. I wanted to have already known her. I wanted her fears and her desires to have shaped my life. I know this is not love, of course. What it is is a queer feeling of nostalgia for an impossible future, for what can never be. That's fantasy. Love is different.

Key Largo... I could have stayed on that picture for the rest of my life. I adored it.

I never wanted this kind of life that Im still living.

All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed.

You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you.

I wished she'd never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.

..all I left with was the magnitude of my mistake, of my missing you. And I have to watch you from this distance, watch you achieve your dreams, live what seemed like this perfect life.

I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.

I spend my life imagining you, it is not time to be a coward.

And all the trips you know you missed And all the lips you never kissed Cut through you like a knife. And now you see stretched out before thee Just another story of a life.

Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for something, and that's okay. That's part of life.

Vampires are so sexy and powerful - they're so otherworldly; they have eternal life and youth.

In another life, I would be your girl. Capable of making promises. We would rule the world.

In another life, I would be your belle

Wishes are thoughts vibrant with life and eager for action.

You. I've spent my life waiting for you.' -Keenan

I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell

What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause?

Wanting someone so much that his very presence takes your breath away is one of the most thrilling happenings in life. Not getting him in no way diminishes this.