Longing Quotes

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

~ Carson Mccullers

I have laughter and amazement, not search results. I have unexpected longings, not hierarchical ratings.

~ D. Travers Scott

If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. Butafter all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted amountain high! A hill wasn't enough.

~ V.c. Andrews

If he would see me again, I would die happy. In the meantime, I was merely dying.

~ Leslea Tash

Maybe he would see me as weak and stupid. Maybe he was right.

~ Leslea Tash

You told me mornings were the best time to break your own heart. So here I am, smoking your brand of cigarettes for the scent. I wonder if you still sing Beatles songs as you make coffee. You said your mother used to sing them to you when you couldn’t sleep, nineteen years before we met, twenty before you moved your clothes out of our closet while I was at work. By the way, I hate you for leaving all the photographs on the fridge. Taking them down felt like peeling off new scabs, like slapping a sunburn. I spent so many nights carving your body into pillows, I can promise you nothing feels like sleeping with your arm around me and your breath in my ear. Still, it’s comforting to know we sleep under the same moon, even if she’s so much older when she gets to me. I like to imagine she’s seen you sleeping and wants me to know you’re doing well.

~ Clementine Von Radics

She had been his talisman, his cure for the insecurities and worries that he knew deep down didn't really matter, but somehow had always managed to get the best of him.

~ Erik Tomblin

A river starts by longing for the ocean...

~ Will Advise

The tides rolled up to crash against the shore while we sat feet from one another with the remnants of all we’d left unsaid driving us apart.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

Happiness is the gap between loving and longing.

~ Debasish Mridha

The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.

~ Cornelia Funke

To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!

~ Virginia Woolf

There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you.

~ Ovid

I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin' after you.

~ Harper Lee

Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.

~ Paul Simon

I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of her feet against my legs when she climbed into bed.I missed the shape of her shadow where it fell across the page of my book. I missed the smell of her hair and the sound of her breath and my Rilke on her nightstand and her wet towel thrown over the back of her desk chair. It felt like I should be sated after having a whole day with her, but it just made me miss her more.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there..

~ Train

I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.

~ Laura Whitcomb

God, you smell nice,” he whispered. “I've missed that smell. I've missed everything about you, little Ann.

~ Wendy Higgins

Without turning on the light, I went to my bed and lay down, my arm thrown across the mattress, my hand aching because Grace wasn't underneath it

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.

~ William Shakespeare

He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.

~ Lisa See

I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahead of me as the seniors at Rye when I was in the sixth grade; people who knew everything instinctively, who made their lives work out the way they wanted without even trying, who never had to make the best of a bad job because it never occured to them to do anything less then perfectly the first time. Sort of heroic super-people, all of them beautiful and witty and calm and kind, and I always imagined that when I did find them I'd suddenly know that I Belonged among them, that I was one of them, that I'd been meant to be one of them all along, and everything in teh meantime had been a mistake; and they'd know it too. I'd be like the ugly duckling among the swans.

~ Richard Yates

And there you have it...if I knew that I could only have a few nights in that man's arms or nothing, I would take those magic nights and use them to keep me warm for the rest of my life.

~ Karen Marie Moning

It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thoughts; they would wander to her; they would bring back the scene,- not of his repulse and rejection the day before but the looks, the actions of the day before that. He went along the crowded streets mechanically, winding in and out among the people, but never seeing them, -almost sick with longing for that one half-hour-that one brief space of time when she clung to him, and her heart beat against his-to come once again.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Till then I wasn't alive, I longed for you like the love sick moon pulls the tide

~ Corinne Bailey Rae

Erotic longing is really a longing to merge with something greater than oneself. For every kind of love is a force that holds the promise of taking us beyond the limitations of our individual lives.

~ Julianne Davidow

In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at night, and raised her up in the morning, for when she dragged herself off to bed, having spent another day without his presence, her heart beat like a gloved fist against her ribs. And in the morning, long before she was fully awake, she felt a longing so bitter and tight it yanked her out of a sleep swept clean of dreams.

~ Toni Morrison

You can miss a person you've never known.

~ Jodi Picoult

But she had dreamed of being his for too long. He had quite ruined her for a marriage of convenience. She wanted everything from him: his mind, his body, his name and, most of all, his heart.

~ Sarah Maclean

I kept it to remind me that although there is evil, there is sometimes beauty and light. You, Jillian. You were always my light.

~ Karen Marie Moning

...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.

~ Marisha Pessl

If your heart is broken, do you have a phantom heart?

~ Damon Suede

I miss you every second of every minute, every minute of every hour, every hour of everyday.

~ Shanece

In the end, the train stood 2 hours motionless in the middle of nowhere.Every minute seemed like an eternity.Time felt crept by slowly, with clear malice towards me. All I could do was grip my teeth and try to hold back my tears...Akari... Please, don't wait for me...If you'd just go home.

~ Makoto Shinkai

Never let the meaning of your love light escape to the dark nothingness of oblivion.

~ Sorin Cerin

I know she is coming I know she will look And that is the longing And this is the book.

~ Leonard Cohen

Something strange started to rage inside me, hearing you inhale sharply as I tried to kiss those scars away or etch them deeper into your skin, wanting to mark you in an entirely different way.

~ D.s. Wrights

Jack is somewhere in this city, right now. The thought was like passing by a house where someone was grilling in the back yard. You could smell it, but it wasn't yours, and you couldn't just barge into their home and demand a burger, no matter how your mouth watered.

~ Jane Seville