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Quotes About Longing

Love in my heart is a cry forever Lost as the swallow's flight, Seeking for you and never, never Stilled by the stars at night
~ Sara Teasdale
Your twisting is done--you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it?
~ Sarah Waters
I was willing to pay any price including subservience to secure this love, hoping that with each piece of myself I gave up he would be so pleased that he, too, would be transformed.
~ Susan Strasberg
Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.
~ Tim Burton
I would love to love something, especially if I could do it without feeling like I was watching it die right in front of me.
~ Vanessa Veselka
Unless i'm reading an assignment or doing a paper or taking a test, i'm thinking about you.
~ Virginia C. Andrews
I will always remember you, even though you had no idea I was even in the room. My words wouldn't come, I could only dream. A crush or a love?
~ Walter Bradford Cannon
How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!
~ Willa Cather
I've never been in love... But I imagine it's similar to the feeling you get when you see your waiter arriving with your food
~ Zach Galifianakis
If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.
~ John Donne
Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry.
~ Dorothy Dix
But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place.
~ Ellen Hopkins, Burned
I'm not trouble at all. I'm just a guy trying to get a girl to give him the time of day. I'm like every song on the radio.
~ Hailey Abbott, Boy Crazy
But one always returns to one's first loves.
~ Etienne
Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
~ Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic
A vampire's thirst can only be quenched by the blood of their loved ones.
~ Matsuri Hino
I love money, but will money ever love me in return?
~ Mason Cooley
We love even when our love is not requited.
~ Mortimer Adler
Moon, moon, when you leave me alone all the darkness is an utter blackness, a pit of fear, a stench, hands unreasonable never to touch. But I love you. Do you love me. What to say when you see me.
~ Robert Creeley
Every time I'm close to you, there's too much I can't say, and you just walk away. And I forgot to tell you I love you.
~ Sarah McLachlan
The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.
~ Amy Hempel
Love is like life-merely longer.
~ Emily Dickinson