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Quotes About Longing

There are a shitload of songs about being in love with someone who doesn't love you back and I talk about weed and my cat and being lazy a lot.
~ Bethany Cosentino
That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.
~ Blaise Pascal
The point is, as death gets closer - what's so wrong with wanting someone you love to live forever?
~ Brad Meltzer
...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.
~ C. S. Lewis
I love you, Clary wanted to say. And, I would do it again. I would always ask for you.
~ Cassandra Clare
I love you, Tessa, and I have loved you, almost since the moment I met you.
~ Cassandra Clare
Sometimes, when you walk by the home of the girl you love, you can see her standing by the window... She waves at you, and you wave back... But it's her grandmother.
~ Charles M. Schulz
I love you, what star do you live on?
~ Conrad Aiken
I do know that I fell in love with the moment of falling in love and I wanted to keep that moment alive forever, at the expense of all those moments to follow.
~ Craig Clevenger
You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--
~ D. H. Lawrence
Why can't you just love me? Why can't you just be in love with me?
~ David Nicholls
We can't be friends Cause I'm still in love with you.
~ Deborah Cox
Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.
~ Dodie Smith
My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
~ Edmund Spenser
I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.
~ Ellen Hopkins
There's still a great hesitancy in the Irish make up about expressing feelings... it'd be nice to say I miss you, I love you, come home.
~ Fionnula Flanagan
Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it.
~ Gregoire
Being with Mary was different because...he wasn't the only one who wanted to make love to her. The beast wanted her, too. The beast wanted out so it could take her.
~ J.R. Ward
Eager for bread and love.
~ Jack Kerouac
This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.
~ Jeanette Winterson
A good love is delicious, you can't get enough too soon.
~ Jewel
I do want love. Genuine love.
~ Jill Scott
Had you restrained your love, you would be free of sorrow. The greater the love, while one possesses it, the greater the sorrow when one is deprived of it.
~ Johannes von Tepl