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Quotes About Longing

You turn me on." He cups my face, brushing my hair away from my eyes and a tear off my cheek.""God, you turn me on. You're driving me crazy. I want you to need my hands on you. Do you?
~ Penelope Douglas, Punk 57
Addy, living one day without you would never be for the best. I want you every minute of every day. Forever. I love you.
~ Lauren Hammond, Insanity
He thought about the next time he would laugh with her and then the next. He found himself often thinking about the future, even before the present was over.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Sometimes, I think that I love life so much, that I make death jealous...
~ Lionel Suggs
It is raining at the top of my roof and I'am inside my blanket in this chilling night with an open window, missing my love and listning the rain singing a lullaby to me.
~ Shabnam Sinha
...I looked in the window, wanting to stay - it rained, yet I remained...because you were so lovely...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
I now have my final resting place, Your eyes.
~ Sapphire Belucci
Would it be so terrible, sweet Cyn?" he whispered. "To spend eternity at my side?" But she was too far gone in sleep, and Raphael didn't know if he wanted to hear her answer anyway.
~ D.B. Reynolds, Raphael
...I think I might die if I don't kiss you right now. A real-life kiss.
~ Mari Mancusi, Gamer Girl
I am longing to show him my love, but not by doing what is wrong
~ Gillian Shields, Immortal
How he loved and yetwished to leave you: always both, at once.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
It sounds crazy, to think that I cared so much without ever talking to you.
~ Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
A tightness in my chest came out of nowhere. As I listened to Amanda reassure my brother, I wanted to pull her into my arms and cry. How damn crazy was that? This girl was making me a nutcase.
~ Abbi Glines, Just for Now
Till then I wasn't alive, I longed for you like the love sick moon pulls the tide
~ Corinne Bailey Rae
Something strange started to rage inside me, hearing you inhale sharply as I tried to kiss those scars away or etch them deeper into your skin, wanting to mark you in an entirely different way.
~ D.S. Wrights, The Beast In Me
It occurs to me that I really can't remember your face in any precise detail. Only the way you walked away through the tables in the café, your figure, your dress, that I still see.
~ Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
The sensation Ihad experienced vanished like smoke from a snuffed candle, leaving behind wisps of namelesslonging.
~ Julianne Donaldson, Edenbrooke
I didn't want this dance to end, or Kiggs to let go of my hand. I didn't want him to turn his eyes away, or live any other moment than this one.
~ Rachel Hartman, Seraphina
I gave up hoping...But, still, I would think of him, I would cherish his image in my mind, and treasure every word, look and gesture that memory could retain.
~ Anne Bronte
I'm always soft for you, that's the problem. You could come knocking on my door five years from now and I would open my arms wider and say 'come here, it's been too long, it felt like home with you.
~ Azra T.
What did I know of loving anything, beyond a longing, beyond being biased in one woman's direction.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
...I'm constantly agitated, restless - I work moments like worry beads until I see your face...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
I will never know you well enough. I will always want more.
~ Priya Ardis, Ever My Merlin
You were right. I'm going to make you want things you never knew you wanted.
~ Meredith Wild, Hardwired