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Quotes About Longing

Pale brows, still hands and dim hair, I had a beautiful friend And dreamed that the old despair Would end in love in the end.
~ William Butler Yeats
For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.
~ William Butler Yeats
Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon.
~ William Faulkner
We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.
~ William H. Macy
Forgetfulness of grief I yet may gain;In some wise may come ending to my pain;It may be yet the Gods will have me glad!Yet, Love, I would that thee and pain I had!
~ William Morris
God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.
~ William Mountford
There's no greater search than that of lost love.
~ William Petersen
What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?
~ William Shakespeare
Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let me die, for I have lived long enough.
~ William Shakespeare
Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat.
~ William Shakespeare
He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.
~ Ann Brashares
I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.
~ Ann Brashares
Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.
~ Ann Brashares
You should find him because he loves you.
~ Ann Brashares
To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love.
~ Anne Sexton
Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
~ Anthony Trollope
Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.
~ Aphra Behn
Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
~ Bayard Taylor
Tobacco is the tomb of love.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
I love smoking. I miss it every day of my life. If I found out that it didn't cause cancer, I would go out and buy, like, eight cartons right now.
~ Beth Grant
Why wait any longer for the one you love When he's standing in front of you
~ Bob Dylan
When I think about you, I get a rush. I wanna meet my Ms.Anonymous.
~ Bobby V
If I spoke Italian, I'd be in Italy in a minute. I love the food, I love the way people live there. I mean, it really is my idea of paradise.
~ Bonnie Bedelia