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Quotes About Longing

The heart looks into space to be away from earth.
~ Richard Jefferies
I have been loved, " she said, "by something strange, and it has forgotten me.
~ Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
But she's still afraid that the more she misses him--his face, his skin, the way he looked at her--and the more hope she has that she'll see him again, the more she has to lose.
~ Julianna Baggott, Fuse
That's how it felt – that the loss of him had a life of its own. I lived with it as I could have lived with him. Some nights it was quiet and sometimes it pounded on my door.
~ Kimberly Novosel, Loved
Eternity is a long time and it doesn't always work out that way, " Jareth says, a bit bitterly. "It's worse to love someone and then lose them, then to never love at all.
~ Mari Mancusi, Stake That
When I saw your strand of hair I knew that grief is love turned into an eternal missing.
~ Rosamund Lupton, Sister
I can't shake you.
~ Sina Queyras, MxT
Grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels....
~ Rosamund Lupton, Sister
Every single dayI find it hard to sayI could be yours aloneYou will see somedayThat all along the wayI was yours to hold.
~ Skillet
my life is just waiting for you to get started.
~ Nina LaCour, Hold Still
Nothing in my life has ever felt so good yet it hurt so achingly bad.
~ Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday
No teas come, only memories. Memories and regrets.
~ Anna Todd, After We Fell
April and May were painful, lonely months for me because I couldn't talk to you. I never knew that spring could be so painful and lonely. Better to have three Februaries than a spring like this.
~ Haruki Murakami
Can't Live with you and I Cannot Live without you
~ Yasswant
I realized that I'm lonely without her and she's incomplete without me. There will be no end to our love story..
~ Taimoor Madni
The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting right next to you and know you can never have them.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She brushed the tears from their faces and sang them a melancholy lullaby. Her obvious devotion to her daughters pulled at my heart strings, making my chest ache with longing for my own mother.
~ A.B. Shepherd, The Beacon
Hatred or disliking for someone is something that doesn't come easily but once it comes, it make sure not to leave your heart and mind and stay there either for ever or a long time.
~ Shivam Singh
If this was just a dream she wished she could have it every night. Neal not quite whispering sweet somethings into her ear.
~ Rainbow Rowell, Landline
You were my dream and I was just your fantasy.
~ Nikki Rowe
She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream...
~ Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
Lying in my bed, I pray for a dreamless sleep... but if I am to dream, I want to dream of her.
~ E.L. James
I didn't want to dream of you anymore, so I quit sleeping.
~ Efdal Korkmaz
I held my breath and wished for that moment to last as long as it possibly could, because a waking dream is always more fleeting than a sleeping one.
~ Vikas Swarup, Q & A