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Quotes About Longing

They say that true love hurts, well this could almost kill me young love murder, that is what this must be I would give it all to not be sleeping alone
~ Kesha
You only realize how much you love somebody when one day they dont love you back.
~ Luka Magnotta
Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.
~ Sean O Faolain
I will not live without love.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
The return makes one love the farewell.
~ Alfred de Musset
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
~ Anne Carson
I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone.
~ Daniel Handler
Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.
~ Adolfo Bioy Casares
I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.
~ Albert Camus
They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
~ Albert Camus
Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
O my choice beauty You've gone But your love remains in my heart Your image in my eye O guide on my winding road I keep turning round and round in the hopes of Finding you
~ Rumi
Now I think all of us were born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You... you fill me up.
~ Stephen King
When love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell them of my hope, which still lives. For this is all I have and all I am and all I ask.
~ Stephen King
What, I ask, drives me to disorder? How can I diagnose myself? All I feel, most immediately, is the most anguished need for physical love and mental companionship -
~ Susan Sontag
You can only give your heart away once, after that, everything else will chase your first love
~ Tarryn Fisher
When you think of love do you think of pain?
~ Vance Joy
As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.
~ Victor Hugo
I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
~ George Eliot