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Quotes About Longing

If you can no longer think about the future, and you once dreamed of everlasting love, don't give up the dream, find it again.
~ Lanford Wilson
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
~ C. S. Lewis
In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?
~ Cornelia Funke
I'll see you later, he says, and as he does, he runs his finger briefly over my wrist. It passes over me like air, and makes me shiver like a kiss.
~ David Levithan
I wanted to escape from love, but didn't know how.
~ Ding Ling
For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes.
~ Robert Herrick
Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives.
~ Rumi
There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling.
~ Rumi
I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.
~ Saint Augustine
Sadly when I want someone to hold me and tell me everything is going to be alright, I have no one. I miss you so much and I wish there was someone to love me when I am down.
~ Shane Johnson
The Soul is shriveled up and buried in a grave that does not love.
~ Thomas Traherne
Cause I shouldn't feel this way... Catch me I'm falling for you... and I don't know what to do.
~ Toni Gonzaga
It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.
~ William Hazlitt
Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.
~ Charlie Chaplin
I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.
~ Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.
~ Lauren Oliver, Delirium
I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.
~ Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith
Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary Duff), A Cinderella Story
~ Hilary Duff
He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.
~ Lisa See, Peony in Love
I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.
~ Stevie Smith, Selected Poems
When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
~ E. M. Forster
I really want to fall in love.
~ Enrique Iglesias
Swift doth young Love flee, And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream.
~ George Meredith
I'll love you when my eyes are open, I'll love you when my eyes are gone.
~ Iggy Pop