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Quotes About Longing

To live without you is to be robbed of love and what is life without it? To live without you is death to me, my love but some call it life.
~ Rumi
All we really want is love's confusing joy.
~ Rumi
You have been hiding so long aimlessly drifting in the sea of my love Even so You have always been connected to me Connected, revealed in the known in the unmanifest I am life itself
~ Rumi
I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
~ Saint Augustine
Love itself cannot be divorced from the suffering which comes from being separated from the object of love.
~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr
If you really ever love someone, that doesn't go away, although you wish it would.
~ Sinead O'Connor
One can't live on love alone; and I am so stupid that I can do nothing but think of him.
~ Sophia Tolstaya
I am really in love with Sam, and it hurts very much.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I wish I could stop being in love with Sam. I really do.
~ Stephen Chbosky
But if you loved me Why'd you leave me?
~ Steve Garrigan
It is very painful to love someone and believe you cannot be with them.
~ Terry Kay
O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.
~ Thomas Merton
It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
~ William Butler Yeats
Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest,hurts the deepest,but feels the strongest
~ William Shakespeare
Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench; I love her ten times more than e'er I did: O, how I long to have some chat with her!
~ William Shakespeare
I'm afraid love is just a word.
~ Harry Mulisch
In the vacuum of the heart love falls forever.
~ John Updike
People say love is a gift but i say love is a burden, loving someone and having to watch them be in love with someone else.
~ Joshua
For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times.
~ Rumi
The only way to have eternal love is to never let your heart forget what it's like to live without it.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long
~ William Shakespeare
Unrequited love made right is the ultimate, isn't it?
~ Bella Andre
Maybe this won't last very long but you feel so right and I could be wrong. Maybe I've been hoping too hard. I've gone this far and it's more than I hope for.
~ Billy Joel
I haven't felt the way I feel today in so long.
~ Brandon Boyd