Quotes About Longing

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a considerable time, on very slight and sparing food.

When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time.

The fact is...I'm in love with you, and I have been for some time.

He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites.

Come back, true love! Sweet youth, return!— But time goes on, and will, unheeding, Though hands will reach, and eyes will yearn, And the wild days set true hearts bleeding.

I wanna go south and get some more. Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine, they say I better stop or I'll go blind.

I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'

We found out a long time ago that we weren't meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him.

And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.

Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.

Ah when will this long weary day have end, And lend me leave to come unto my love? How slowly do the hours their numbers spend! How slowly does sad Time his feathers move!

It's been a long time since I asked anything of heaven, and my arms still haven't come down.

I'm going to be 50 soon. I'm single, I'm looking for something meaningful. By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.

By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless - and a little bored - and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself.

They say that time heals a broken heart, but time has stood still since we've been apart.

I guess that's why they call it the blues, time on my hands could be time spent with you.

I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.

With Marguerite, he wanted only time—more and more time—and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.

The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

He had acres of time there.

He might be tall enough to see into tomorrow, but he hadn't looked there in a long, long time. He'd forgotten how bright it was. So bright he could hardly stand it.