Quotes About Longing

Somewhere there must one Made for this soul, to move it.

Love runs away from those chasing her, and those who run away, she throws herself on his neck.

I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip

To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought...?

Perhaps a great love is never returned.

If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go.

When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.

Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

I'll walk forever with stories inside me that the people I love the most can never hear.

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves.

You know how it feels when you're in love with somebody and you long to be with that person? God wants us to feel that way about Him.

O love, how did you get here?

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always. Always.

Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and for ever, I missed love's everywhere Small presence, thousand-guised.

We are all children searching for love.

In love there is but little rest.

I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.

Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.

I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love

It's probably the worst feeling in the world, when you're deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she's not feeling you the same way, and you don't know why.

When the lights don't glow the same way that they used to and I finally get a moment to myself, I will realize you were everything I'm missing and you'll tell me you're in love with someone else.