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Quotes About Longing

The older I get, there doesn't seem to be anything remotely more interesting than talking about love and the lack of it and what happens when it's taken away from someone who's had it.
~ Nick Lowe
My first love thinks that I'm too young. He doesn't even know. Wish that I could show him what I'm feeling.
~ Nikka Costa
It's my first love what I dreaming of when I go to bed, when I lay my head upon my pillow.
~ Nikka Costa
Once love found you it clung, no matter how much you tried to shake it off.
~ Nora Roberts
A capacity for hating the object of desire is, perhaps, the best cure for love in cases of disappointment.
~ Norm MacDonald
I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.
~ Norman Rush
When your hands leap towards mine, love, what do they bring me in flight?
~ Pablo Neruda
All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
~ Patti Smith
The problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter.
~ Paul Monette
Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.
~ Paulo Coelho
My aim is to understand love. I know how alive I felt when I was in love, and I know that everything I have now, however interesting it might seem, doesn't really excited me.
~ Paulo Coelho
I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.
~ Paulo Coelho
May my tears run just as far, that my love might never know that one day I cried for him.
~ Paulo Coelho
The sight, sound or even smell of a first love seems to burrow deep into the brain.
~ Pete Munro
Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
~ Plato
Always in absent lovers love's tide flows stronger.
~ Propertius
I never really found out what love was.
~ Quentin Crisp
If he should love deny him what he loves!
~ Ovid
Park was never going to love her more than he did on the day they said goodbye. And she couldn't bear to think of him loving her less.
~ Rainbow Rowell
Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.
~ Rajneesh
I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love.
~ Ram Dass
Sometimes I hate how much I love him But everyday I love him more
~ Reba McEntire
I would love to eat a really great burger, but it doesn't exist in our part of the world.
~ Rene Redzepi