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Quotes About Longing

i hate that its my favorite thing to watch her, because it shouldn't be. It triggers all these what-ifs in my head, and my mind begins imagining things it shouldn't be imagining...
~ Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday
People say love isn't supposed to be painful. But maybe the best things in life are the ones that hurt the most after they're gone.
~ Julie Johnson, Say the Word
If I blink she'll disappear, " he told her. She looked at him and said, "Maybe that is the best thing for you.
~ Donna Lynn Hope
DANWhat do you want?ALICETo be loved.DANThat simple?ALICE It's a big want.
~ Patrick Marber, Closer
Please understand. Please forgive me.I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful.Don't hate me.I still love you.
~ Lauren Oliver, Requiem
I was a fool. I should have grabbed him when I could have had him all to myself, snatched him up like a ripe mango at the market. But how was I to know that this was what love felt like?
~ Jean Kwok, Girl in Translation
I have nothing to offer you otherthan the undying love of my broken Heart.
~ Angivel of Zanarcadia
What she really craved was a connection. That feeling you got when you knew you were supposed to be with someone.
~ J. Sterling, In Dreams
I've been in love for five hundred million years…
~ Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics
And I go home having lost her love. And write this book.
~ Jack Kerouac
In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it, all right.
~ Markus Zusak
I want and I wish a love like of books
~ Kat Unda
My father couldn't warm my frozen hands.
~ Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
There is a hole in the heart called "absence". You live in it my dear.
~ Malak El Halabi
Sometimes, we want what we want. Even if we know it's going to kill us.
~ Trevor Driggers
Do you think you can wait - because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don't want to hurt you...not ever...
~ Judy Blume, Forever . . .
…love is by definition freeand if he choose to gowhen I would have him stayperhaps I'll die a bitbut I'd rather sothan taste his absent minded kissand lie uneasy in a masked embrace
~ Lenore Kandel
But she couldn't start this, because then it would end. Stories like this always ended. She couldn't take this pleasure, because she would spend the rest of her life missing it, hurting from it.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
No matter what she'd done in our past, I would always want her. I could turn away and show restraint a thousand times, and it would never lessen the hunger I had for that woman.
~ J.L. Berg, Ready for You
Because I love him so much and it hurts
~ Novellina A., Fantasy
It hurts because there is no alternative to Love.
~ Himanshu Chhabra
What was it like to lose him?" Asked Sorrow. There was a long pause before I responded:It was like hearing every goodbye ever said tome—said all at once.
~ Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure
Even though your words hurt the most, I still want to hear them everyday.
~ Andrew Davie
i closed my eyes and i loved you ... dreams are such beautiful things
~ rassool jibraeel snyman