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Quotes About Longing

My news is this, he answered, grinning down at her. I still want you more than any woman I've ever seen and now that Frank's gone, I thought you'd be interested to know it.
~ Margaret Mitchell
The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.
~ Wendy Wasserstein
And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
All I can think about is how I wanted to share those firsts with Logan and how I never knew it was an impossibility because it had already been taken away from me.
~ Siobhan Davis, Saven Denial
I just wanted one more day." More tears welled up in her eyes. "But it would never be enough. I could keep asking for one more day for the rest of my life.
~ Cindi Madsen, Cipher
as long as I can still dream, I will dream of you.
~ Cassandra Clare
I spent the weekend after our date wishing I could stab him with my fluffy-duck pen and staring at the phone hoping he'd call. Dating is a very tricky business.
~ Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon
I wouldn't change a thing. I want you. I'll always want you.
~ Siobhan Davis, Saven Defiance
I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.
~ Michel Foucault
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.
~ Sonia Sanchez
Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.
~ Jonathan Carroll
Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.
~ Robert Jordan
For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.
~ Laurie Lee
Any time gone by was better.
~ Jorge Manrique
Have gentle utterances that will inspire a superior longing for all time.
~ Philip the Apostle
The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time; but to assure for ever, the way of his future desires.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Tuesday will be a tough night for me. It's like to return to the family who have not seen you for a long time. I spent a wonderful time there.
~ Cristiano Ronaldo
If I had time in a bottle, if words could make wishes come true, I'd save everyday for eternity passes. And then I would spend them with you.
~ Jim Croce
No matter the time, carried away the wind is Better your absence Thy indifference.
~ Serge Gainsbourg
I strode toward Mr. Coffee with lust in my eyes. We'd had a thing for quite some time now Mr. Coffee and I.
~ Darynda Jones
If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day
~ Jim Croce
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
~ John Cheever