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Quotes About Longing

need to see I never saw your need for me your longing raw
~ Leonard Cohen
Jos pääni hohtaisi ja ihmiset alkaisivat tuijottaa rautiovaunuissa; ja voisin venyttää vartaloni läpi kirkkaan veden sekä viipyä kalojen ja rantakäärmeiden rinnalla; jos voisin turmella sulkani lennolla auringon edessä; luuletko että pysyisin tässä huoneessa, lausumassa sinulle runoja, kehitellen hävyttömiä fantasioita huultesi vähäisimmistäkin liikkeistä?
~ Leonard Cohen
But I know she's coming and I know she will look That's the longing and this is the book
~ Leonard Cohen
the flags from the nation but your absence comes from a terrible sleep under a huge museum Enter the moth holes of my longing
~ Leonard Cohen
He let me be a student of a love that I will never be able to give.
~ Leonard Cohen
Baby, I've been waiting, I've been waiting night and day I didn't see the time, I waited half my life away
~ Leonard Cohen
And all I've said was just instead Of coming back to you.
~ Leonard Cohen
You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.
~ Leonard Woolf
Touch me, he thought, and all he could think was: love me, and all he could think was: why I never prepare for this moment better? Look how I had all these years of life to ready myself for your arrival, and what I did with them? Wasted them on other women, and other ideas, and now you here, I not ready. He wanted to sit in front of her and have her tell him everything she'd ever experienced in all of her life.
~ Leone Ross
An exile's life is no life.
~ Leonidas of Tarentum
There was no remedy for the needle in my heart with its long thread of old blood.
~ Leonora Carrington
fratele sãu mai mare, care È™edea cu o carte latineascã sub teiul bãtrân din faÈ›a curÈ›ii parohiale È™i pentru care pãsãrile cântau în zadar, iar soarele îÈ™i risipea fãrã folos aurul topit.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
And you are the first woman I've ever loved,' he continued calmly. 'I love you so much that it makes me suffer, but I'm not suffering because I can't possess you. I'm suffering because it's impossible for me to love you. It tears my heart apart that such a magnificent nature has resulted in such an ugly character.'   
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
I love no-one. I did love you, so deeply and passionately Ã¢â'¬â€œ as deep as I could love anyone, but now I do not even love you. My heart is empty and dead, and that saddens
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
If only I could give you my total soul in one kiss
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
It's like you've been in a terrible accident and had your arm amputated," she told him. "After a while, the pain goes away, and eventually you even learn to get along without your arm. Some days you're sad that you're missing your arm, and some days you're angry about it, and some days you're okay. But, no matter what, no matter how long it's been, you never stop missing your arm.
~ Les Standiford
In the Balkans the peasants say that if you long for faraway countries and leave your own land and home to find them, you are born under A LILAC-BLEEDING STAR.
~ Lesley Blanch
Waiting anxiously for you, Unable to sleep, but falling into a doze— Are those words of love Floating to my pillow, Or is this too a dream . . . ? My eyes open and here is my tear-drenched sleeve. Perhaps it was a sudden rain.
~ Lesley Downer
You made me ache and you liked that. So did I.
~ Leslie Feinberg
I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.
~ Leslie Fiedler
I do love foreplay," he whispered against her lips. "Days and days worth of it. I want to look forward to you like a kid looks forward to Christmas.
~ Leslie Kelly
When we are passionately in love with our Prince, we put Him above all else--not just in theory, but also practically, in every moment of our day-to-day lives. We do not live for the applause of heaven. Our longings are not for people's approval but only for more and more of Him. We are marked by an effortless, unshakable strength that is found in the presence of our perfect Lover.
~ Leslie Ludy
He was overwhelmed by the love he felt for her; tears filled his eyes and the ache in his throat ran deep into his chest. He ran down the hill to the river, through the light rain until th pain faded like fog mist. He stood and watched the rainy dawn, and he knew he would find her again.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
I had so much love in me that I never considered what moving for love would mean, what I might leave behind that could never be found again.
~ Leslie Morgan Steiner