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Quotes About Longing

I got dosed by you and Closer than most to you and What am I supposed to do Take it away I never had it anyway
~ Red Hot Chili Peppers
But here—in the midst of this unimaginable loss—is where I found it. The gift in the rupture. Rupture's gift is the chance to feel the pain that we could not afford to feel before. In rupture, this pain becomes ours. Because we have longed. Because we have loved.
~ Regena Thomashauer
But I think mebbe it was himself he blamed most. 'It 'ud be different if only she'd come back,' he'd say. 'I'd never let her out of my sight.
~ Reginald Hill
I am a fool who with his longing for love and tenderness runs up cold mountains.
~ Reinhold Messner
Et il regrettait de ne pas avoir plus de mains, plus de lèvres pour lui faire partout plus de joies à la fois.
~ René Barjavel
For the memory of their time together was all she would ever have in the empty years to come.
~ Rexanne Becnel
What was life like here before I came?" Empty, she wanted to say. Before you came into my life it was empty, hollow, and lonely.
~ Rexanne Becnel
Breeders say you always look for the great one you lost. You watch every puppy in case he's the one. I will. I lost a great one. But I had him. And I'll recognize him. I cry for Ben, not because I lost him, but because he had to leave and I know how much he wanted to stay with me.
~ Rhoda Lerman
A rabbit sneeze on the morning breeze sets homesick hearts aglow sitting with his rumps in a chicory clump and longing for a nice plump doe.
~ Richard Adams
Odysseus...sleeps sound beside Calypso and when he wakes thinks only of Penelope.
~ Richard Adams
Odysseus brings not one man to shore with him. Yet he sleeps sound beside Calypso and when he wakes thinks only of Penelope.
~ Richard Adams
You are never given a wish without what it takes to make it true.
~ Richard Bach
I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you.
~ Richard Brautigan
For the rest of my life I'll be thinking about that hamburger. I'll be sitting there at the counter, holding it in my hands with tears streaming down my cheeks. The waitress will be looking away because she doesn't like to see kids crying when they are eating hamburgers...
~ Richard Brautigan
In a Cafe I watched a man in a cafe fold a slice of bread as if he were folding a birth certificate or looking at the photograph of a dead lover.
~ Richard Brautigan
The Wait It seemed like years before I picked a bouquet of kisses off her mouth and put them into a dawn-colored vase in my heart. But the wait was worth it. Because I was in love.
~ Richard Brautigan
It seemed like years before I picked a bouquet of kisses off her mouth and put them into a dawn-colored vase in my heart. But the wait was worth it. Because I was in love.
~ Richard Brautigan
What do you want? Let's just start with the basics. Write down anything that you want in your life. These can be big or small things.
~ Richard Brodie
We are careless of that which is near us, and follow that which is afar off, to which we will travel and sail beyond the seas.
~ Richard Davenport-Hines
Ive wanted to be with Lance Tanner since the sixth grade, but that was so not going to happen since he's a zombie now.
~ Richard Denney
The imprisoning scent of jasmine that always awakened in him a desire to flee.
~ Richard Flanagan
He was looking past Amy's naked body, over the crescent line between her chest and hip, haloed with tiny hairs, to where, beyond the weathered French doors with their flaking white paint, the moonlight formed a narrow road on the sea that ran away from his gaze into spreadeagled clouds. It was as if it were waiting for him.
~ Richard Flanagan
and how if she didn't see him for another thirty years she would still love him, how she would still love him if he was dead until she was dead too.
~ Richard Flanagan
As they made their way to the coast, he bemoaned the hotel trade in the manner, Dorrigo felt, that those who love what they do bemoan their passion the most.
~ Richard Flanagan