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Quotes About Longing

I don't want to unlove you because I love you.
~ Piolo Pascual
Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner.
~ Eric Berne
The hardest thing about being an outcast isn't the love you don't receive. It's the love you long to give that nobody wants.
~ Jodee Blanco
He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again.
~ Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Love isn't who you can see yourself with. It's who you can't see yourself without.
~ Jared Leto
Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day.
~ Richard Crashaw
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Sometimes I wish that I was a bong hit, you'd let me in and you would love every minute.
~ John Mayer
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
~ William Shakespeare
That I am your heart's secret fills me with song. I wish I could sing of you here in my cage. You are my heart's hidden poem. I reread you, memorize you every moment we're apart.
~ Laura Whitcomb
You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.
~ Michael Marshall Smith
For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
It is unbearably painful for the soul to love silently.
~ Anna Akhmatova
I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I'm so proud the fans still sing my name, but I fear tomorrow they will stop. I fear it because I love it. And everything you love, you fear you will lose.
~ Eric Cantona
Do you believe in love after last sight?
~ Kami Garcia
The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
~ Robert Bly
Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.
~ Margaret Fuller
A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon.
~ David Niven
Love must wait; it must break one's bones.
~ James Salter
and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
~ James Joyce, Dubliners
I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.
~ Pablo Neruda
All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days.
~ Hafez
What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
~ Nina Simone