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Quotes About Longing

Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.
~ Jeanette Winterson
She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.
~ Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
I attempt from love's sickness to fly.
~ Henry Purcell
Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat them. We must live by the love of what we will never see.
~ Rubem Alves
Love will fan the flame, and that flame will warm the heart that's waiting.
~ Michael W. Smith
I will be free, no lover's kiss to bind me to earth, no bliss of love to counteract actual bliss.
~ Hilda Doolittle
Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world.
~ Blaise Cendrars
What puts you on the road is your desire to enjoy. What brings you home is being in love
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane.
~ Kevin Barry
Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love?
~ Matsuo Basho
When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.
~ Helen Hunt Jackson
I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.
~ Charlie Watts
As for love . . . no, having once written that word I can write nothing more.
~ Osamu Dazai
I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What's the furthest corner? Because that's where I want to be, alone with the only thing that I love.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Not loving is but a long dying.
~ Emperor Wu of Han
Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
~ Plato
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
But love brings much happiness - much more so than pining brings pain.
~ Albert Einstein
O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment; as long as ego is there, all these bind one.
~ Rajneesh
When I look into your eyes I still get weak And when Im this close to you I just cant speak And its hard to keep my hands to myself When I know I could never love anybody else
~ Gary Allan
Cinderella said to snow white, how does love get so off course? All I wanted was a white knight with a good heart, soft touch, fast horse.
~ Faith Hill