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Quotes About Longing

Lochie. The boy I once loved. The boy I still love. The boy I will continue to love, even when my part in this world is over too.
~ Tabitha Suzuma
For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.
~ William Carlos Williams
Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.
~ William Maxwell
A first love always occupies a special place.
~ Lee Konitz
My friends are gone and my hair is grey. I ache in places I used to play. And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on. I'm just paying my rent every day in the tower of song.
~ Leonard Cohen
Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.
~ Marcel Proust
... I will never love, for I should never be loved as I desire to be loved.
~ Marie Bashkirtseff
Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.
~ Marsha Norman
Gone for a while Hoping, always, to return If you will let me
~ Megan McCafferty
I hate the feeling when I'm overseas, away from Australia, that I'm trapped, blocked by an ocean from getting to the people I love. That gives me anxiety.
~ Mia Wasikowska
I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love
~ Michael Ondaatje
I hated L.A. for a long time, and I wanted to leave it. I had these fantasies of going to 'SNL' and falling in love with some writer on 'SNL,' of getting married and living in New York.
~ Mindy Kaling
And for just a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies in summer skies, she wondered if she was in love with him again.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won't survive.
~ Paulo Coelho
It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.
~ Peter Sarsgaard
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
~ Ovid
We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.
~ Ovid
Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.
~ R. Scott Bakker
I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life.
~ Rainbow Rowell
Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.
~ Ralph Ellison
What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have had young fascinations but never love.
~ Rita Ora
I miss your love, I miss your touch But I'm feeling you every day. And I can almost hear you say You've come a long way baby.
~ Robbie Williams