Quotes About Longing

I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during 'Captain Blood.' I thought he was absolutely smashing for three solid years, but he never guessed. Then he had one on me but nothing came of it. I'm not going to regret that; it could have ruined my life.

I think everybody longs to be loved and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they're loved and capable of loving.

Everyone romanticizes somebody.

I miss Boston so much and want to get back there someday.

I don't have a family. I'd like to have one. I just haven't somehow gotten around to it yet.

No one can actually define love, but you attempt to, and the closest you can get is longing. And that itself has a melancholy to it. You can say dread, or doom - it's that feeling we all feel when we fall in love with someone: we have this horrible, fearful feeling that maybe we will never have that person in our life.

By the time you get what you always wanted, you want something else.

If love disappear forever, a veil of sadness, falls over the valley of dried tears.

Last night, lost in spaces between star—bays and lakes of clouds, I tossed and turned looking for you

See me once with loveMake me alive.

Too long spent denying each other, we no longer hid our want.

and I wanted this girl who was like no girl I had ever known, wanted her not in spite of her moods and her secret bruises and her sad attempts at artifice but because of them, because of them all.

my throat is starting to choke because i can still smell his scent that is lingering on my pillow from the last time he was here, with every breath i take.

What was it about my obsession with romance that always made me feel embarrassed? Like it was a silly, girlish thing to obsess about. In reality, it was what we all wanted, right?

Why did you leave my hand? I've never felt so good, she thought. I felt good too, he thought.

Angel blinked hard and bit her lip, trying to stop the quivering of her chin. "I feel like I've waited my whole life for him, waited to get to this point where I could appreciate and value him most.

She was like a star in the sky and I would imagine how she could be mine....

Tasting what could have been—what should have been—didn't make it easier.

The spring which moved my energies lay far away beyond seas, in an Indian isle.

I didn't ask to be born!""No, but I asked." He was breathing hard. His eyes hard and glinting with a fire that burned straight through me. "I asked for you every day of my life!

What she wanted was right there, between them, pressed against her stomach—so big and accessible and user-friendly—neatly covered and ready to go.

There are fires, vast and endless, that burn in me for you. And I will carry them until you are ready to walk through the Flames of me.

Lust. It's not soft like the touch of a raindrop. It's not easy like floating aimlessly on the water. It's weighted, and heavy, a spark that catches on the forest of your body. A wildfire.

I believe in the lust of the flesh and the incurable desolation of the soul.