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Quotes About Longing

He has come across a love story. This is only a love story. He does not wish for plot and all its consequences. Let me stay in this field with Alice Gull...
~ Michael Ondaatje
All the time I hate what I am doing and want the other. In a room full of people I get frantic in their air and their shout and when I'm alone I sniff the smell of their bodies against my clothes.
~ Michael Ondaatje
It's tragic to go on desiring when one's old.' There were also the haunting possibilities of promises not fulfilled.
~ Michael Peppiatt
brooding on his cramped horizon and reaching for a drink.
~ Michael Pollan
I've been dating since I was fifteen. I'm exhausted. Where is he?
~ Kristin Davis
I keep coming back because I have no place else to go. What else would I do? I love to sing.
~ Cher
Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.'
~ Jennifer Weiner
I miss my singing career very much.
~ Elvis Presley
I've been passionate about singing for as long as I can recall.
~ Chinmayi
I miss my family every single day.
~ Megan Phelps-Roper
The truth is many singles deeply desire and pray for marriage.
~ Eric Metaxas
The song that makes me the happiest when someone sings it is Cher's 'If I Could Turn Back Time.'
~ Hannah Simone
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
~ Oscar Wilde
I always wanted to have younger sisters growing up.
~ Mikey Madison
I am definitely one of those girls who want to get married. I have two sisters and they are both married with kids, and I'm like, 'Oh, I want that.'
~ Sophie Monk
I don't read good books anymore, it seems; I just buy them and put them on the shelf and every now and then walk over and pet them. I'm like the optimistic dieter who fills her closet with clothes two sizes too small and dreams of the day she can wear them. I know just what I want to do when I retire.
~ Mary Roach
With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me.
~ Denis Johnson
If love what you can't have, then you have to love what you've got
~ Ed Sheeran
The love of her life dissolved into dreams.
~ Ellen Hopkins
... I have no letter from the dead, yet daily love them more.
~ Emily Dickinson
Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love.
~ Fiona Apple
Everytime you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory
~ Leonard Cohen
I closed my eyes, thinking, Let me love you, Hardy, just let me.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Some feelings are stronger than fear: love, longing, desire.
~ Luanne Rice