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Quotes About Longing

In life, we always fall for the person who will never fall for us, always want things we can't have, and say things we shouldn't.
~ Zayn Malik
I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it.
~ Amy Lowell
I love you. And I don't want to lose you.
~ Cassandra Clare
You have nothing. One should never allow themselves to think that they have, one can just touch - to have is to lack appreciation, to touch is to want to touch again.
~ Robert Plant
There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out.
~ Charles Bukowski
It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
~ Mark Twain
I don't belong here. It doesn't matter, because even if I don't belong in this place, she's here and I want to be where she is.
~ Simone Elkeles
When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
~ Sadie Frost
I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you.
~ John Burdett
A good golf course makes you want to play so badly that you hardly have the time to change your shoes.
~ Ben Crenshaw
Do we eagerly long for the coming of Christ? Or do we want him to wait while our love affair with the world runs its course? That is the question that tests the authenticity of faith.
~ John Piper
Sometimes I'm terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
~ Franz Kafka
It's amazing how the things you remember forever are the things you'd rather forget and the things you desperately want to grasp onto seem to slip away like sand in the wind.
~ Jessica Sorensen
You see, you just don't know I'm here to give you my heart And you want some fashion show
~ Jim Carroll
Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.
~ Marilyn Monroe
And it hurts so much to want something you can't have.
~ Johnny Depp
Protect me from what I want.
~ Jenny Holzer
I hardly ever so longed to live to God and to be altigether devoted to Him. i want to wear out my life in His service, and for His Glory!!
~ David Brainerd
Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.
~ Walter Cronkite
Does it ever stop? The wanting you?" "Even when I've just left ye. I want you so much my chest feels tight and my fingers ache with wanting to touch ye again.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I want you too much. I want you with me, in my life, in my bed. If i can have that, nothing else matters.
~ Sylvia Day
The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
~ Alan Watts
I don't want to lose you. I'm in love with you Blaire. I've never wanted anything or anyone the way I want you. I can't imagine my world now without you in it.
~ Abbi Glines