Quotes about Longing

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They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you t — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousand — Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, th — Lisa Kleypas, Again the Magic
I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals. — Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabil — Brené Brown
She didn't belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somewhere and to someone. — C. JoyBell C.
If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it. — Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life
My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is y — Stephanie Laurens, The Edge of Desire
Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts becau — Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as — Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be. — Stephanie Laurens, A Rogue's Proposal
…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man — Homer, The Iliad
She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always bori — T.H. White, The Once and Future King
Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to — C. JoyBell C.
Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left. — Brian Andreas
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek! — William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great. — Roger de Rabutin de Bussy
I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you. — Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, emp — Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince