Quotes About Longing

Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist.

The love we'd shared always burned within me, no matter how often I told myself to move on, no matter how much the world did think I'd moved on.

And hey, if I keep loving you, maybe you'll eventually crack and love me too.

Leo fell in love with every girl he saw-as long as she was completely out of his league.

Falling in love with Renee was not the kind of thing you walk away from in one piece. I had no chance. She put a hitch in my git-a-long.

She understood his eyes, colder than winter's heart. A man who knew he was dead and couldn't make himself care; you are spared that. Mashiara. His lost love.

For men love what they cannot have, and hate what they cannot control.

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

I don't think one can run out and try and chase love.

... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It is the self I love--not this efficient, philanthropic self.

I want to be someone's everything. I want fire and passion, and love that's returned, equally. I want to be someone's heart.

If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.

I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it.

By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

I never wanted anything so much than to drown in your love and not feel your rain.

Love said, "Wake still and think of me," Sleep, "Close your eyes till break of day," But Dreams came by and smilingly Gave both to Love and Sleep their way.

The Autumn seems to cry for thee,Best lover of the Autumn-days!

When you've never gotten love from someone, you don't know what it might look like if it ever does appear. You look for it in everything: any bright light overhead could be a star.

But anyone who has been that young knows that the great grief of love is that your body feels the most when it knows the least.

All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.

True love hates and will not bear delay.

Love is loss combined with pain.

Imora thea mi savur," Ash whispered under his breath in Atlantean. God save me from love.

Tell me, is it better to know love and have lost it or to have never known it at all? [Camulus]