Quotes About Longing

Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.

The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.

Love is what dreams are made of!

You are my sweetest downfall.

Don't write love poems when you're in love. Write them when you're not in love.

It isn't the meaning of love where you somehow desire that one or you want them or want them to love you.

I love thee - I love thee, 'Tis all that I can say, It is my vision in the night, My dreaming in the day.

Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!

I want something from Daddy that he is not able to give me. ... It is only that I long for Daddy's real love: not only as his child, but for me - Anne, myself.

The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love." from "Memoriam

as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves

Let me feel your love one more time before I abandon it.

I believe we all have one true love, somewhere in this world I do.

You are so near to my thoughts and my heart yet so far from my body and my arms... I once loved the whole world because you were in it.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, after the day's great sun.

He is the vampire that had the greatest love of all times. And lost the greatest love of all times.

It's an incredible feeling falling in love someone who doesn't know you exist.

We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there is lust and there is need.

Love comes with hunger.

Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love.

No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy.

O that it might remain eternally green, The beautiful time of youthful love.