Quotes About Longing

Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it?

I'm terrified that I will never be able to put him from my mind. I don't love him but I'm afraid that he will make it impossible for me ever to love anyone else.

I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.

When my beloved arrives, I yawn. When my beloved departs, I weep.

Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is?

Love may have the longest arms, but it can still fall short of an embrace.

I wish our love was right now.

I'm so sorry for loving you, I'm so sorry.... But it was such a wonderful dream, my love, such a wonderful dream.

Love ans desire aren't the same

He had no idea of how long his life would one day seem to have gone on; how daily present the absence of love would come to feel. "Just watch me," he said.

In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.

Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.

I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again.

I didn't want to feel such love for someone else. I still wanted to be the object of that tidal wave.

Being remembered is all anyone can ask from a lost love.

...and I put on "All My Love" and watched the sun rise yet again and thought thank you Robert Plant for all your love but do you have anymore?

Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.

If I were to be really petulant, I would say New York is the one doing the betraying. Because the New York I fell in love with doesn't really exist anymore.

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

I have so much love inside me, Jason. So much. And I have never been allowed to shower it on anyone - no one wanted it. Let me stretch the wings of my heart with you.

You know how is it when you love someone? And the hard part, the bad part, the Jerry Springer Show part is that you never stop loving someone. There's always a piece of them in your heart.

And while he was doing those things, he thought about Allie and the love that was missing from both their lives.

How can I tell them that I love them if I'm no longer there?

When you are missing something you've left behind, it could be dead or lost so that you never find it again. You never really know, when you don't have something, what its condition is. That's why you grieve about it to the same degree- because you just don't know.