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Quotes About Longing

For you girl, there is not enough love in the world.
~ Don Henley
I can't love you unless I give you up.
~ Edith Wharton
Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion
~ Edmund Spenser
My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
~ Emily Bronte
He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...]
~ Evelyn Waugh
If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.
~ Frank Norris
'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.
~ Frederick William Thomas
Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance.
~ Helen Humphreys
Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.
~ Ignatius of Loyola
Since I love you, my loneliness begins to throw you.
~ Jean Giraudoux
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
She looks at him for a long moment, then sighs deeply. "Silver," she says, her voice tinged with a profound sadness with which he is all too familiar. All the things you can't get back, all the things you can never make right. No matter what happens after, you'll always carry them with you.
~ Jonathan Tropper
Oh I wish I had a river to skate away on.
~ Joni Mitchell
Caught in my struggle for higher achievements, And my search for love that don't seem to cease.
~ Joni Mitchell
De een hield de ander niet in de armen, maar toch leek het alsof zij elkaar wiegden.
~ Joost Zwagerman
Een misplaatst gevoel voor goede smaak weerhield hem ervan te zeggen dat hij haar had gemist en haar zou blijven missen. Maar er waren momenten dat de goede smaak maar even de andere kant op moest kijken. 'Ik jou ook,' antwoordde Lizzie.
~ Joost Zwagerman
Everyone is always broadcasting to everyone else their desire to encounter the ideal.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
There is no shortage of oppressors among the downtrodden, even if, given their lowly positions, many of them are only tyrannical wannabes. It's the easiest path to choose, moment to moment, although it's nothing but hell in the long run.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
I'll be fast. I can make you come in two minutes." "I can do that myself. I never get to see you anymore- I'd rather talk to you" That had to be the most romantic things anyone had ever said to me, and I went all gooshy inside.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
Desde el fondo de mi corazón, esta noche estrellada, pienso mucho en ti y envidio lo que te espera...»
~ Jordi Sierra i Fabra
Por qué deberías olvidarme sin un día me amaste?
~ Jordi Sierra i Fabra