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Quotes About Longing

What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights, Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hours More tedious than the dial eightscore times! O weary reckoning!
~ William Shakespeare
For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.
~ Yukio Mishima
The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.
~ Katarina Witt
It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday.
~ Kate Atkinson
Mercy Watson was a character that had been in my head for a long time.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Every time one leaves anywhere, something precious, which ought not to be killed, is left to die.
~ Katherine Mansfield
I been away a long time.
~ Ken Kesey
What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.
~ Ken Livingstone
I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.
~ Kim Harrison
Those lips looked tasty, especially when they said things like ' i jumped up every time someone knocked, hoping it's be you
~ Lauren Kate
I cry for everything I abandoned and because I, too, have been left behind -- by Alex, by my mom, by time that has cut through our worlds and separated us.
~ Lauren Oliver
I think people are always nostalgic for a time about 20 years before they were born.
~ Lisa Loeb
A decade is a very long time to be away from somebody.
~ Liza Weil
Imperceptibly, more time passes when I'm not remembering our every moment together, not recreating our every conversation, re-imagining our love-making. It is immeasurably sad.
~ Luke Davies
Sam looked at me, yellow eyes catching and holding me. "I miss being me. I miss you. All the time.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, Ive wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?
~ Maksim Chmerkovskiy
You know, I watched the original 'Same Time, Next Year' on DVD about ten times this year, and I cried all ten times.
~ Mark Duplass
I've waited a long time to be part of a franchise like this [the Yankees].
~ Mark Teixeira
How tedious is time, when his wings are loaded with expectation!
~ Mary Collyer
Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.
~ Mason Cooley
It's been a long time since I've won a race in anything.
~ Matt Kenseth
When I run, I always pretend I am running toward Nikki, and it makes me feel like I am decreasing the amount of time I have to wait until I see her again.
~ Matthew Quick
You have stopped the arrow of time... There's no meaning to this rhyme... Because my song will never mean as much as the one.. He once sang.. For you, yes, you.
~ Megan McCafferty
My heart can't stop beating faster, every time I hear your name or your laughter.
~ Melissa Ferrick