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Quotes About Longing

The first time I lived in L.A. I was too young. I really wanted to be back home in Vancouver.
~ Sarah Chalke
Then I'd crawl back into bed, smelling her all around me, and tell myself that next time, I would lock that window. But I never did.
~ Sarah Dessen
During this time we've been apart, it's you I've thought of when I'm at my weakest, and you who have pulled me through.
~ Sarah Dessen
..he wanted her. And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover. . . as more.
~ Sarah MacLean
Looking back, I wish I could bottle the stuff that made it better, but how can one bottle time?
~ Scott Woods
I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.
~ Stanley Tucci
I know you're frustrated that he's keeping you locked up like this, but don't give him too bad a time when he gets back. He loves you more than you know. It terrifies him to be away from you.
~ Stephenie Meyer
I used to dream about him all the time," Sunny whispered to me. "Every night. I kept hoping the Seekers would find him; I missed him so much...When I saw him, I thought it was the old dream again.
~ Stephenie Meyer
You may go a long time without winning, but you never forget that scent.
~ Steve Busby
I was wasting my time, praying for love. For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.
~ Steven Morrissey
It was a kiss made in lonely dreams. A kiss that took its time. A kiss that felt so right she couldn't remember all the reasons it was wrong.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Reminds me of the red dress you wore the first time I had you. That was it for me, you know. You devastated me. There was no coming back from that.
~ Sylvia Day
I want your mind. Your strength. I want to be worth your time.
~ Tahereh Mafi
For us, the best time is always yesterday.
~ Tatyana Tolstaya
You realize who you're in love with is fading fast. You don't know what to do, but in that period time moves so slowly.
~ Taylor Swift
You can spend so much time wanting someone and they can have absolutely no idea.
~ Taylor Swift
Music can take you back in time to that place when you first fell in love and really haunt you.
~ Taylor Swift
Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.
~ Umberto Eco
Shivers up and down my spine It's a feeling so divine Let me go back for a while Got to go back for a while To that magic time.
~ Van Morrison
What feminism did was make clear for me how much I longed for clarity. I got married twice, each time in a fog. I had so many complicated feelings I couldn't understand.
~ Vivian Gornick
For time is inches And the heart's changes, Where ghost has haunted Lost and wanted.
~ W. H. Auden
I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.
~ W. P. Kinsella
Oh, bring again my heart's content, Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!
~ William Allingham
Come near; I would, before my time to go, Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways: Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.
~ William Butler Yeats