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Quotes About Longing

Again the Cousin's whistle! Go, my Love.
~ Robert Browning
How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
~ John Donne
Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by
~ William Shakespeare
Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!
~ Agnes Smedley
Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.
~ Alain de Botton
Sweet is true love, though given in vain.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I would like a boyfriend. I'm a very happy person and it is the final, final piece of the puzzle. I'm looking for that shout-it-out-from-the-mountaintops, fall-in-love person.
~ Andy Cohen
I, who called love my hope for love.
~ Clarice Lispector
People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
All the time travelling in the world can't make someone love you.
~ Domhnall Gleeson
There is no escape if love is not there," Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not even suspected? It was not escape that she had dreamed about, it was love.
~ Elizabeth George Speare
It's hard to feel desire when you don't feel desirable
~ Christine Feehan, Safe Harbor
I need you. Right now. Let me love you right here, please.
~ Abbi Glines, Fallen Too Far
It's the craziest thing, but I can't stop thinking about you.
~ Anna Godbersen, The Luxe
I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?
~ Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden
Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo
I needed him like I'd never needed anyone.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo
He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides
~ Gustave Flaubert
I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now.
~ Nick Harkaway, Angelmaker
It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could.
~ Richelle Mead, Frostbite
How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?
~ Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.
~ Rachel Hunter
Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.
~ Alice Sebold
Living will always be a struggle looking for someone to love you.
~ Alicia Keys