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Quotes About Longing

How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to.
~ Doris Lessing
.."I don't even know her yet..but if she could see me right now, I'd want her to know that I love her.." ~E.L.~
~ Eric Ludy
My only prayer for my time with you is, "God I just want these men and women to long for you."
~ Francis Chan
It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her.
~ Jack Kerouac
I'm getting Puppetmasters, too. They're one of my favorites. And they're coming out with new Puppetmasters. I try not to get everything, but I want so much.
~ Jason Mewes
Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.
~ Jay McInerney
You're trying to figure out a way to go back in time and spend more time with your father. Who wouldn't want to do that?
~ Jeremy Piven
Everyone wants Love to follow them / down their road; / where is it that Love wants to go?
~ Judy Grahn
If I have a last wish, I want to remember you. In an aimless life, to not even have those memories would be hell.
~ Lee Hyung-chul
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.
~ Mark Hopkins
If you really love someone, even if you can't see where you'll be or what you'll be doing twenty years from now, you'd still want that person to be there.
~ Meg Cabot
Oh Alexander," she said, "what do you want from me..." "Everything!" he whispered fiercely.
~ Paullina Simons
With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.
~ Peter Gabriel
Behind me there are already so many memories (...) Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for ... I just don't want to go along it.
~ Ivan Turgenev
It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.
~ Janet Fitch
It wasn't a touch that said I need more. It was a touch that said I want this.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in, for one last time, we want to eat the world with our eyes.
~ Margaret Atwood
Sin is ground in the notion of what is there that I want.
~ Mark Sanford
Can't you just like a girl who likes you back?' 'None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want.
~ Rainbow Rowell
Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don't know how awful it is unti you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die.
~ Roald Dahl
Open your arms if you want the Beloved's embrace.
~ Rumi
I loved World War II. I didn't want the war to end. I wanted the war to go on forever.
~ Russ Meyer
We sometimes imagine we want what we don't really want.
~ Siri Hustvedt