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Quotes About Longing

Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?
~ Richard Yates
Would he have said he loved me? I would ask myself that for the rest of my life.
~ Richelle Mead
I wanted to bring Lissa back, and I wanted to return to Adrian's arms again, return to his lips and all this life... "Hathaway! Good God, do I have to hose you down?
~ Richelle Mead
I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life.
~ Roberto Cavalli
You're still the one I run to, the one that I belong to, you're still the one I want for life.
~ Shania Twain
There are some people in life that you can't get over.
~ Stephanie Perkins
Find your voice, and inspire others to find theirs. Don't ignore that longing to make a difference.
~ Stephen Covey
I didn't want the life that made sense. Not if the chaos meant i could have Bella.
~ Stephenie Meyer
Life is very long, when you're lonely.
~ Steven Morrissey
If I could only live another century!
~ Susan B. Anthony
Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.
~ Susan Howatch
He looked at her. "I will miss you, Montana. For the first time in my life, I'll regret leaving someone behind.
~ Susan Mallery
Life would be so much easier if fictional boys were real.
~ Susane Colasanti
How much better my life has been for knowing him. For loving him, even if it's only in the limited way that I can manage. But I never get the chance.
~ Suzanne Collins
I've never worked so hard for anything in my life as I have for you.
~ Sylvia Day
Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing, Read you not the wrong you're doing In my cheek's pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing; Wed or cease to woo.
~ Thomas Campbell
I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.
~ John Keats
The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
~ John Ortberg
I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.
~ Josiah Royce
In her heart she longed for this man, dreamed of a life that could never be.
~ Julia Quinn
He would not give her up,he could not.For the first time in his life he'd found someone who filled all the empty spaces in his heart
~ Julia Quinn
If you told me tomorrow that I couldn't act anymore, it wouldn't bother me. I have only one wish: to meet the man of my life.
~ Juliette Binoche