Quotes About Longing

Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.

Our senses are never more awakened to our need for His love than when our need is most exposed.

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.

I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.

Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat.

Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love.

Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere love a pale approximation of bittersweet euphoria.

How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away

What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love?

One night of love don't make up for six nights alone. But I'd rather have one than none Lord, cause I'm flesh and bone.

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.

Next to me, Saiman smiled. "We all want what we can't have, Kate. I want you, you want love, and he wants to break my neck.

The fire of love and the cold of time, deprive my sweet love of his peace of mind.

I wonder love can have already set In dreams, when we've not met More times than I can number on one hand.

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you

Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.

I do not love you-except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, from waiting to not waiting for you my heart moves from the cold into the fire.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem

How I'd love, love, love, to dance with my Father again.

Sometimes we have only ten minutes to be with the love of our life and thousands of hours to spend thinking about them.

Everyone we love builds a home in our heart. And when they are gone we spend eternity staring at their empty seat.

Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love

Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.