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Quotes About Longing

I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
~ Ivan Turgenev
I've wanted to be with you since the first time you turned me down. I've just been waiting for you to come around.
~ J. Lynn
Forever is a very long time Peter
~ James M. Barrie
I've been looking for you a long time, I just didn't know it. But now I do.
~ James Patterson
This is what I want: I want to grab my brother's hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling from our shoulders.
~ Jandy Nelson
There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.
~ Jane Smiley
At one time or another, everyone's had the rom-com itch that needs to be scratched.
~ Jay Baruchel
I don't have a girlfriend. No, I don't. I haven't had a relationship in years, actually. But yeah, I'm still looking. It's kind of nice to be looking for a home at the same time.
~ Jens Lekman
It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.
~ Jesse Owens
Its's just that... this is the realest thing I've had in a long time and it scares me a bit.
~ Jessica Sorensen
Happiness can be a simple thing just like dreaming of someone you've missed for a long time.
~ Jhane Barnes
Maybe this time she wanted to be found, and to be found by me.
~ John Green
Many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death.
~ John Keats
I will wait for Cleopatra, for I know my time must come. And I'm getting ready for wherever she'll be at-tra, cause I'm getting stronger now and not so dumb.
~ Jonathan Richman
I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man.
~ Jules Shear
Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.
~ Jane Austen, Persuasion
O call back yesterday bid time return.
~ William Shakespeare
Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with expiration dates couldn't be held, only borrowed for a time.
~ Martina Boone
Today is just another day of trying to get by without you.
~ Ranata Suzuki
I wish I had a hundred years, " she said, very quietly. "A hundred years I could give to you.
~ Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
No matter how much time and space may come between us, I still feel you.
~ Ken Poirot
You are every missing part of me.
~ Barbara Avon, The Promise
If ever I was running, it was towards you.
~ Jennifer Elisabeth
I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…
~ Jennifer Elisabeth