Quotes About Longing

I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.

Love is just a chocolate substitute.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower; Radiance and odour are not its dower; It loves, even like Love, its deep heart is full, It desires what it has not, the beautiful.

and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.

It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.

To long for love, to have experienced passion's deep pleasure, even once, is to understand the mercilessness of having a human body whose memory rides desire's back unanchored from season to season.

O my heart! Love God as the chatrik loves the rain drops, Who even when fountains are full and the land green, Is not satisfied as long as it cannot get a drop of rain.

Ah me! why may not love and life be one?

I want love to roll me over slowly stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around.... I want love to walk right up and bite me grab a hold of me and fight me leave me dying on the ground.

Sometimes my hands they don't feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.

I didn't want to make the same mistake my parents made. I didn't want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.

I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?

I could dispense with life sooner than with your love.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

Over to the jukebox I staggered for a love song to scatter my body before her.

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

I don't wanna need you because I can't have you.

When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight

What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.

She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.