Quotes About Longing

Love meant something to her, she dreamt of it, thought of it, wrote of it. It was the one thing in life that had eluded her completely.

I spent most of my adult life looking for romantic love.

It's hard, Cotton. To let yourself love something you know you may never have.

And, Kar, love is not a commandment, it is a need, as real as eating.

I should talk to him I know I should talk to him. But I do not talk to him. I watch after him from afar and love him.

We were born with four words engraved on our bodies and in our hearts: Love me, hold me.

What do you call love, then?" Someone I can't live without.

What are these voices outside love's open door, make us throw off our contentment, and beg for something more?

My love for you will still be strong after the boys of summer have gone.

I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107)

I have certainly had my share of long-distance love affairs.

I think that idea of being far away from the people that you love is something that everyone can relate to.

I know you'll never love me like you used to.

Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.

The notion that I might have been able to court friends, win attention, conjure it, would have spoiled it for me. Unbidden love was what I wanted.

I always want to be in love, always. It's like being a tuning fork.

He that would eat of love must eat it where it hangs.

..still to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her to love.

He treasured her, treasured her tears, treasured her love for others. Her heart might even be big enough to fill that empty space in his own chest. Perhaps she could be his heart as well.

I am crying over the elusive nature of love.

I want to know living love. And I don't want to wait for it.

Love is only found in books

That is how I'm loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he's in my soul.

You'll ache. And you're going to love it. It will crush you. And you're still going to love all of it.