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Quotes About Longing

You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.
~ Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
~ Franz Kafka
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
~ John Ruskin
She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you.
~ Jamie Foxx
There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.
~ Henry Rollins
Drowning in the sea of love Where everyone would love to drown.
~ Stevie Nicks
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Sometimes it's necessary to believe in love, even if it doesn't exist.
~ Rosario Ferré
Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.
~ Sigmund Freud
My love is as a fever, longing still.
~ William Shakespeare
My heart is breaking for a little love
~ Christina Rossetti
Give to God just one thought of sincere love and longing and He responds: 'My child, one silent call from the depths of your soul, and I am there in an instant.'
~ Daya Mata
I love rains which carry desires to oceans.
~ Etel Adnan
If blue is dream what then innocence? What awaits the heart if Love bears no arrows?
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It's all about love. We're either in love, dreaming about love, recovering from it, wishing for it or reflecting on it. That's what this record [Call Me Irresponsible] is about.
~ Michael Buble
The more you love, the more you crave.
~ Nicole Kidman
The girl behind the scrawled letters. I loved you from the moment I read them. I love you still." - Will Herondale
~ Cassandra Clare
All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds.
~ Hafez
It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
But in any situation with long love, I don't think it ever goes away fully. You just sort of learn where to keep it.
~ Justin Vernon
If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?
~ Kabir
I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.
~ David Brainerd