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Quotes About Longing

Loneliness is the endless disease that eats at our soul.
~ Jacob Baylis
Look at the picture, Emma. Do you see his expression? He looks like he's been waiting his whole life to find you and suddenly there you are.
~ Sarah Grimm, Wrecked
You can always get exactly what you desire.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Waiting, he thought, was the most miserable condition a man could find himself in. His whole life, he had been waiting for one thing or another.
~ Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
~ Saint Augustine
so I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.
~ Pablo Neruda
Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach; may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance. Don't leave me for a second, my dearest.
~ Pablo Neruda
Oh, Lord, nourish me not with love, but with the desire for love.
~ Ibn Arabi
We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
I got my eyes on you You're everything that I see, I want your hot love and emotion Endlessly.
~ Drake
I keep telling myself that I don't miss you and that I don't love you hoping that someday I will believe it.
~ Tyga
You don't know what love is, until you've learned the meaning of the blues, until you've loved a love you've had to lose.
~ Chet Baker
And I fear that my place gets taken by some other one, very lucky and not too shy, who flirts with your eyes while I'm the one who's crazy about them.
~ Nizar Qabbani
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
~ Pablo Neruda
It doesn't matter how much you flirt the whole day, at night you'll always end up thinking about the one you truly love.
~ Zayn Malik
We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
~ Axl Rose
And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.
~ Raymond Carver
My Jesus, fill my heart with so much love that one day it will break just to be with you. My Jesus, you know I have placed you as a seal on my heart. Remain there always.
~ Bernadette Soubirous
It's true we don't know what we've got until its gone, but we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
~ Bette Davis
I hunger for the bread of God, the flesh of Jesus Christ ...; I long to drink of his blood, the gift of unending love.
~ Ignatius of Antioch
Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
~ Sappho
I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.
~ John Green