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Quotes About Longing

The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.
~ Graham Greene
Are people so unhappy when they love?" "Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.
~ Gaston Leroux
We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You come out of a woman and you spend the rest of your life trying to get back inside.
~ Heathcote Williams
I spit honey out of my mouth: nothing is second-best after the sweet of Eros.
~ Hilda Doolittle
True love rules especially through memory.
~ Honore de Balzac
I am always yours to call, wherever the sea can reach.
~ Janet Morris
I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
~ Jean Genet
We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops? If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
~ Jeff Melvoin
Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out of cigarettes.
~ Jeffrey McDaniel
She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
I would have given you the world if you had given me the chance.
~ Jess Collins
The only thing that has ever consumed me is love from time to time. Feeling like, 'What is it? How do I get it?'
~ Jim Carrey
The one that rambles for a million miles, yes, I walk down this road searching for your love.
~ Jimi Hendrix
The person you love is 72.8% water, and it hasn't rained for weeks.
~ Johan Harstad
It is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of love and friendship.
~ John Cheever
I'll be a little bummed out if I make it to my 70s and didn't have a kid. I have two dogs and I know how much I love them. I would like to love and raise a kid.
~ John Corbett
I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.
~ John Fowles
There is a lot of love in him, a lot of love in his heart...And he is up there with no one and nothing to love. It is a bad thing to have love and no where to put it.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Out stretched hands and one night stands, still I can't find love.
~ Kid Rock
It occurred to her suddenly, sharply, that she wanted to be in love... She wanted not to feel so damned alone in the world.
~ Kristin Hannah