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Quotes About Longing

So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Alas! for love, if thou art all, And nought beyond, O earth.
~ Felicia Hemans
The feeling of love is measured by the extent of missing the feverish state in which the absence of the other plunges us
~ Francine Noel
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Touch has a memory. O say, love, say, What can I do to kill it and be free?
~ John Keats
You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon—
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss
~ Sigmund Freud
I absolutely, positively hate this beautiful, magical feeling.
~ Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
Lust is the best of all the deadly sins.
~ Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
Nor did he think of Celia any more, though he could sometimes remember having dreamt of her. If only he had been able to think of her, he would not have needed to dream of her.
~ Samuel Beckett, Murphy
She gave me for my pains a world of sighs.
~ William Shakespeare, Othello
I'm kissing you because sometimes I can't not kiss you.
~ Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
If yet I have not all thy love love Dear I shall never have it all.
~ John Donne
I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feetHas led me- who knows how?To thy chamber-window, Sweet!
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
And I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have.
~ Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight!You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.
~ Emily Dickinson
But I miss screamin' and fightin' and kissin' in the rain and it's 2 a.m. and I'm cursin' your name. You're so in love the you act insane, and that's the way I loved you.
~ Taylor Swift
Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.
~ Alice Walker, The Color Purple
The heart has its own reasons that reason can't understand.
~ Voltaire
Twice or thrice had I lov'd thee, Before I knew thy face or name
~ John Donne, The Love Poems
I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I love you" I say."I love you, too" he says. "I'll see you soon.
~ Veronica Roth, Allegiant
…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover's whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.
~ Homer, The Iliad
You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you. That's where I'll be waiting.
~ J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan