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Quotes About Longing

When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.
~ Oscar Wilde
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
~ Franz Kafka
it's like a squid in love with the sky.
~ Matthew Tobin Anderson
I love my poor earth because I have seen no other.
~ Osip Mandelstam
Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.
~ James Ellroy
I Cannot Exist Without You. I Am Forgetful Of Everything But Seeing You Again.
~ John Keats
What is the gospel according to Jesus? Simply this: that the love we all long for in our innermost heart is already present, beyond longing.
~ Stephen Mitchell
The love withheld is always the love we long for most.
~ Susanna Tamaro
Some people feel love in their hearts, Julie. Some of us feel it all way into our souls. We're the ones who can't forget.
~ Judith McNaught, Paradise
You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.
~ Richard Siken
Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.
~ Suzan-Lori Parks
Deep in my soul, I've been so lonely, all of my hopes fading away. I've longed for love, like everyone else does, I know I'll keep searching after today.
~ Bob Seger
Every love outside of HIS love, is pain.
~ Rumi
To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
~ Vikram Seth
You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.
~ Gaston Leroux
Love can wait to give; it is lust that can't wait to get.
~ Josh McDowell
Learn that there is no cure for desire, no cure for the love of reward, no cure for the misery of longing, save in the fixing of the sight and hearing on that which is invisible and soundless.
~ Mabel Collins
My love, i would like even more; to be an ocean if you are the wave; to be a wave, if you are the ocean.
~ Nicolas Guillen
Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.
~ Plato
Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.
~ Veronica Roth, Divergent
If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?
~ Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
Loving you forever can't be wrong. Even though you're not here, can't move on
~ Lana Del Rey
I want my true love, because I don't have so much time, and I wanna spend my time with the right girl
~ Bill Kaulitz
It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.
~ Deborah Harkness