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Quotes About Longing

...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.
~ Emma Donoghue
The undead did not love, but they remembered love with a savage loyalty.
~ Kim Harrison, A Perfect Blood
I'm not supposed to miss you, I'm not supposed to care
~ Deborah Cox
I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.
~ C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle
His kisses tapped into deep mines of memory, and the years that had separated us fell away as if they were nothing.
~ Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every minute of the rest of her life so strong that sometimes she is frightened of herself.
~ Yiyun Li
As long as I can dream, I will dream of you.
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
Some people never say the words 'I love you', for like a child they're longing to be told.
~ Paul Simon
Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
~ Ian Mckellen
'Romeo And Juliet' is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back to one another, that's fiercely romantic and something you become glued to.
~ Saoirse Ronan
The love goes where it wants; you hear it rustling but you do not know where it's going and where it goes.
~ Aleksis Kivi
Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
~ Alexander Pope
Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
The night comes on that knows not morn, When I shall cease to be all alone, To live forgotten, and love forlorn.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.
~ Amy Hempel
The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.
~ Andy Warhol
If the entire divinity and domain of God sits in the heart of a person, and his longing becomes timeless, then man can develop the capacity to love.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Perfect love is long delayed.
~ Howard Thurman
I love you. And I'm going to keep loving you even after you don't know I exist.
~ J.R. Ward
I was in love with the idea of being in love with a woman way before I was actually in love with one.
~ Jimmy Carr
You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
~ John Green
I couldn't hear a thing in the world but you. And it was so cold then, and so silent, and I loved you so much. Now it's hot and dead quiet again, and I love you still.
~ John Green
Love is everything. Without it, I have no use for this world. When I'm not in love with someone, I feel empty and I can't think about anything but trying to find that someone.
~ Joshua Radin
I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get.
~ Lionel Blue