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Quotes About Longing

If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape, you're the love that I've looked for, come with me and escape.
~ Rupert Holmes
O beauty, are you not enough; why am I crying after love.
~ Sara Teasdale
Unrequited love is like hitting your head against a wall that isn't there.
~ Shannon Wheeler
I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person - a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge - is perpetually waving.
~ Simon Van Booy
Believe me, I wanted to say. I've tried. Oh, and also, I'm wretchedly in love with you. Keep it light.
~ Stephenie Meyer
When you can't be with the one you love, will you stay with the one who loves you?
~ Stephenie Meyer
I would have fallen in love with you anywhere.
~ Susan Minot
Because I still love him. You can't just turn love off. You still feel it.
~ Susane Colasanti
"The Notebook" is one of my favorite love stories.
~ Taylor Schilling
Drying up in conversation You will be the one who cannot talk All your insides fall to pieces You just sit there wishing you could still make love.
~ Thom Yorke
When they fall in love with a city, it is for forever and it is like forever.
~ Toni Morrison
Be like you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together
~ William Shakespeare
You're in love? Out Out of love? I love someone. She doesn't love me.
~ William Shakespeare
What? do I love her, that I desire to hear her speak again, and feast upon her eyes
~ William Shakespeare
I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.
~ George Bernard Shaw
We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our own yearnings.
~ George Eliot
No distance can keep anxious lovers long asunder.
~ George Washington
Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.
~ Georges Bataille
But I was waiting for some magical moment, that would prove to me, forever would be fine. Meanwhile, my first love was standing first in line.
~ Goapele
Why doesn't my stupid brain understand that I always wanted to be you? No you; no,no..you.Hey,you! now what are you smiling at.
~ Gopichand Lagadapati