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Quotes About Longing

The heart wants who the heart wants. We can't help that.
~ Abbi Glines, The Vincent Boys
It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.
~ Veronica Roth, Allegiant
There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love.
~ Ashly Lorenzana
Tiffany and I are great friends, and I appreciate all that she is doing for me now. But she is not you. I still love you, Nikki. And you can't control or alter true love.
~ Matthew Quick
How can love let it go when it has no place to go? And I can't go along pretending that love isn't here to stay... Catch me I'm falling for you.
~ Toni Gonzaga
I fell in love with you again; While you were away - Jack Salmon
~ Alice Sebold
Like first love, the heart of Russia will not forget you.
~ Fyodor Tyutchev
The scars of your love remind me of us they keep me thinking that we almost had it all the scars of your love they leave me breathless I can't help feeling we could have had it all
~ Adele
Soul yearns to return home to God. Home to God means the area of supreme divine love that has no conditions attached to it: unconditional love.
~ Harold Klemp
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
~ Marcel Proust
If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
~ Naya Rivera
We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
~ Philip Yancey
Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.
~ Robert Breault
What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland, such is my considered opinion, this evening.
~ Samuel Beckett
I love you. Still not the right word, but i know you want to hear it.
~ Sylvia Day
The Love-god inflames more fiercely those he sees are reluctant to surrender.
~ Tibullus
It seems like everywhere I go I can't get real love.
~ Lil' Kim
Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars!
~ Louis Untermeyer
I can do nothing but think of you... What have you done to me? Can't you remove the spell you have cast over me?
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
I'm searching for a real love.
~ Mary J. Blige
The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
~ Michel Foucault
Love is brief: forgetting lasts so long.
~ Pablo Neruda
Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.
~ Jeff Buckley
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.
~ Khalil Gibran