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Quotes About Longing

Trust me, Stryder, there is no greater pain than to let the one you love leave your side. Knowing they are out there, alone, and always wondering if they are healthy and happy. (Zenobia)
~ Kinley MacGregor
Men were never easy, especially not when you loved one. As her mother had told her on her wedding night, the first two years of marriage a wife will want to devour her husband. After that, she'll wish she had.
~ Kinley MacGregor
beyond anything the INS could imagine, it was an old-fashioned romance.
~ Kiran Desai
When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of?
~ Kiran Desai
This way of leaving your family for work had condemned them over several generations to have their hearts always in other places, their minds thinking about people elsewhere; they could never be in a single existence at one time. How wonderful it was going to be to have things otherwise.
~ Kiran Desai
But there was still something missing. Something that nagged at her-an emptiness she couldn't explain. There were mornings she woke with her heart pounding wildly and the sensation of arms wrapped around her. But the feeling slipped away the moment she opened her eyes, and no matter how quickly she squeezed them shut, she couldn't recapture the contentment she'd felt.
~ Kirsten Miller
Kiss me again. Let me imagine for a moment that you belong to me. The memory will keep me company in my solitude.
~ Kirsten Miller
I kept my arms around Joi and my face buried deep in her hair while I waited for Peter Pan to slip through the window. I thought I needed him to tell me what I should do. But he never showed up. He left me alone with a girl who smelled of jasmine and cocoa butter. And before I fell asleep, I finally realized that was more than enough.
~ Kirsten Miller
Cómo funciona eso, entonces? —preguntó Haven—. ¿Cómo se vuelve a encontrar la gente? —Lo único que sé es que atraemos a las personas que hemos amado antes. —¿Y tú y yo nos hemos encontrado en cada vida? —Ojalá fuera así de fácil. Te busco en cada vida, pero no siempre te encuentro. Y a veces te encuentro demasiado tarde.
~ Kirsten Miller
Hell, she knows why you chew your nails, why your eyes are blue one day, black the next. And all you want to do then is curl yourself with her, snug like a worm, lay your pumping head down in her lap. Have her caress you, be kind. No words because both of you are bodies, wrapping and unwrapping, there's eloquence in your embracings. Eyes closed, you realize everything you've ever wanted to say is right there.
~ Kirsty Gunn
I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.
~ Klaus Kinski
ach, gebt mir meinen Tod, damit ich bleibe
~ Klaus Kinski
and what was left was only man calling to Almighty God, aching to feel another human heart beating next to his own, so that together they could defy the eternal emptiness
~ Knud Holmboe
I love three things, I then say. I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth. And which do you love best? The dream.
~ Knut Hamsun
The other one he loved like a slave, like a madman and like a beggar. Why? Ask the dust on the road and the falling leaves, ask the mysterious God of life; for no one knows such things. She gave him nothing, no nothing did she give him and yet he thanked her. She said: Give me your peace and your reason! And he was only sorry she did not ask for his life.
~ Knut Hamsun
Flowers scattering - The water we thirst for Far off, in the mist.
~ Kobayashi Issa
Loneliness was an unsatisfied thirst for illusion.
~ Kobo Abe
I chocia? o miÅ'oÅ›ci mojej nic powiedzie? nie mogÄ™ - chocia? nic nie mówiÄ™ o twych wÅ'osach, ustach, oczach - jednak twarz twoja, której strzegÄ™ w duszy, brzmienie twego gÅ'osu, które trwa w moim mózgu, dni wrzeÅ›nia, Å›witajÄ…ce w mych snach, nadajÄ… ksztaÅ't i barwÄ™ moim sÅ'owom, zdaniom, o czymkolwiek mówiÄ™, cokolwiek wypowiadam.
~ Konstandinos Kavafis
There is a good side to waiting. It drives you into such a state that all you can do is long for your turn to get through with the thing you are afraid of.
~ Konstantin Stanislavski
I've been thinking I'd like to be Daisy; I'd like to have someone like Gatsby stare at my house for whole years and never stop dreaming of me
~ Koren Zailckas
Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives seeking out our other half. A drink is my beloved. Without it, I am wanting; I feel half finished.
~ Koren Zailickas
Together Noriko we'll live with the sadness.I'll love you with all the madness in my soul. Someday girl I don't know when we're gonna get to that place. Where we really want to and we'll walk in the sun. But till then tramps like us baby we were born to run.
~ Koushun Takami
I hope you fall in love with someone nice and have a good marriage. I might end up dying without knowing what it's like to be in love.
~ Koushun Takami
If I tell you will you go?" "What? I don't get. What do you mean?" "I love you, Kotohiki. I've loved you for a real long time.
~ Koushun Takami