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Quotes About Longing

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that.
~ Sherwood Anderson
what could i do to make the one i loved love me back ?
~ Simone Elkeles
It's been seven hours and fifteen days, since you took your love away.
~ Sinead O'Connor
He was my best friend. I would always love him, and it would never, ever be enough.
~ Stephenie Meyer
That's what gives people hope - that you can still love someone from afar and you can still have those feelings across an ocean.
~ Steve Coogan
Where's that higher love I keep thinking of?
~ Steve Winwood
Young bones groan And the rocks below say, "Throw your white body down!" But I'm going to meet the one I love At last
~ Steven Morrissey
I love people, but I love the thought and memory of them just as much.
~ Stevie Smith
I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love.
~ Sylvia Plath
I deserve that, don't I, some sort of blazing love that I can live with.
~ Sylvia Plath
Paper Moon didn't bring me love.
~ Tatum O'Neal
The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
~ Tennessee Williams
The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.
~ Thomas Malory
Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones - THAT kind of love.
~ Tim O'Brien
...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered.
~ Tim O'Brien
I don't know what will happen to me without you. Only you. Only you love me. Out of everyone in the world.
~ Tony Kushner
Being in love with someone who doesn't even know that you exist isn't the worst thing in the world.
~ Tonya Hurley
I feel sublime Then I lose ground Tripping on words That have no sound of love
~ Traci Lords
Everyone longs for expressiveness. That's why love carries so much weight. Because so many lives are without other means of expressiveness.
~ Vivian Gornick
Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep
~ W. H. Auden
The past, the future, majesty, love - if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.
~ Walt Whitman
You never forget your first love.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.
~ William Blake
Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.
~ William Butler Yeats