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Quotes About Longing

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.
~ William Shakespeare
It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic.
~ Eric Bana
She exists, Damon. There are women out there who crave what we can give them. Once you taste it, you can't ever let go of it.
~ Maya Banks
How can I ever miss you when you never go away?
~ Gloria Jones
You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees.
~ Jean Helion
He'll learn that many women can satisfy for a short period of time, but when he falls in love, only one will sustain him forever.
~ Jeaniene Frost
Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.
~ John Donne
The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always.
~ Joseph Joubert
I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.
~ Kate Baldwin
Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this, but it means that these women, they were not sharing my solitude.
~ Klaus Kinski
Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.
~ Leonard Cohen
Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit, Whatever they are.
~ Philip Larkin
Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin. Wait till you come to Forty Year.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Men always want to be a woman's first love, -women want to be a man's last romance.
~ Oscar Wilde
Even the memory of cradling her in my arms is pure euphoria. And all that I ask out of life is that it be constant and unending euphoria.
~ Roman Payne
Unfortunately, he still hadn't asked for my number, or a date, or my hand in marriage, and my drink was getting low.
~ Kimberly Novosel, Loved
When a woman knows she cannot attain her worldly love, she gives it an eternal form.
~ Haritha Velpureddy
Lust promises you the world, and disappoints. Love promises you the universe, and delivers.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Passion gives you what you want, lust gives you what you desire, but only love gives you what you need.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You know what it's like, " said Storm, "when you want to--just--pour a woman into a glass and--just-drink her--just drink her down, one gulp, body and soul?
~ Andrew Klavan, The Uncanny
She keeps telling herself and others that she doesn't want a relationship to silence the longing in her soul. That alternative fact feeds her insecurities and starves her soul.
~ Sanjo Jendayi
Men never forget true love. They always remember all the women they couldn't have.
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
...there is a void in my guts which can only be filled by songs.
~ Jessica Hopper