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Quotes About Longing

Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the dark So soon, so soon.
~ Jean Rhys
Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.
~ Thomas Overbury
Some things never leave a person: scent of the hair of one you love, the texture of persimmons, in your palm, the ripe weight.
~ Li-Young Lee
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
~ Lucretius
Human beings are born to experience pure love, and they never get it. They are searching to experience it from birth until death.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.
~ Maurice Sendak
Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.
~ Paulo Coelho
Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.
~ Oscar Wilde
You don't have to love me. Just don't leave me," he said against my leg
~ Abbi Glines
People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.
~ Aharon Appelfeld
American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore.
~ Alan Moore
Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
~ Alexander Pope
I'm in love with a girl who's in love with the world.
~ Amos Lee
Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
And all I really want to say is you're the reason I want to stay.
~ Ben Folds
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
~ Ben Jonson
The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love.
~ Franz Werfel
I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
~ Pablo Neruda
I will never be yours, and you will never be mine; nevertheless, I can honestly say: I love you, I love you, I love you.
~ Paulo Coelho
My favorite movie is Closer and Love Story.
~ Shelley Hennig
Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star.
~ Walter Scott
without you, dearest dearest I couldn't see or hear or feel or think - or live - I love you so and I'm never in all our lives going to let us be apart another night.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
~ William Faulkner
I'll be inside the one who holds you. And then I won't be.
~ Francesca Lia Block, Wasteland