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Quotes About Longing

How I wish I could undo it all … take it all back…All those years I spent unhappy with him …. when I should have been looking for you.
~ Ranata Suzuki
How many times did we pass each other before we met? If only I'd known…. I would have searched for you endlessly.If only I'd found you before it was already too late.
~ Ranata Suzuki
TimeYou were the oneI wanted mostto stay.But time could notbe kept at bay.The more it goes, the more it's gone—the more it takes away.
~ Lang Leav, Lullabies
And there was that trick he did with time, making it speed up when we were together and drag til I saw him again.
~ Francine Prose, Goldengrove
There are too many years around this table, too much time confined in one place.
~ Richard Smyth, Wild Ink
I still have your wrist watch but I couldn't hold the time still.
~ Bhavik Sarkhedi
He rubbed his head again. 'Five years is longer than it sounds. So much longer.
~ Octavia E. Butler, Kindred
In the depths of hell roasting on a spit if it meant getting to be close to you.
~ Nicole Williams, Mister Wrong
I'm in love with fiction. A fantasy that slips between my fingers when reality sets in.
~ Moryah DeMott, Timeless
I remember our priceless moments when we were close together. But now i have felt it is painful to my soul if i have seen her presence of aura.
~ Kurt Reiner Suarez
When has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.
~ Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin
Every single time you looked at me, through the corner of your eye and smiled. My heart pushed the ribs with all the force towards my lungs, until it got crushed and I could not breathe anymore.
~ Akshay Vasu
The hour is only love thus, if you've waited.
~ J. Limbu
We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she might at least have been able to see the man she loved, for others where he had never trod.
~ Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
There's not a day that goes by, without me thinking of you, dying, in someone else's arms.
~ Anthony Liccione
The heart knows not of distance, space nor time. It meshes to the fabric of its desire & follows on an immeasurable continuum.
~ Truth Devour, Wantin
I'm still waiting for something, searching for something I cannot describe.""It's called true love. Most people never find it.
~ Destin Bays, True Love
My Christmas wish: To feel your arms around me, to have your lips on mine, and to hold you close one more time, while there's time.
~ D.S. Mixell
If your callswere measures of Time, a day would last a centuryand in between us would beAn Eternity.
~ Natasha Tsakos
Drink in the moon as though you might die of thirst.
~ Sanober Khan
Okay, try this on for size, Tall, Dark and Handsome. I won't be born for almost seven hundred hundred years. How's that strike you?
~ Lisa Tawn Bergren
It is more than love, barely less than madness. It's never close enough.
~ C.J. Carlyon, The Cherry House
If I believe in the wish, I must believe I can lose it.
~ Destin Bays, True Love