825 Quotes About Longing

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.

She'd been in love with the man, and love is a scary thing. If not reciprocated, it can turn a person into a monster.

..and when he let her go, it was as if she had been filled and didn't realize it until he pulled away and the absence rushed back in.

Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious!

The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing...

People often miss things that don't exist--miss things that were but are not anymore.

But sex as a physical act is merely athletics, a momentary relief. What it needs to be powerful is desire, and the strongest element of desire is longing. It's in the work. Desider-, sidus: from the stars. The longing that reaches beyond space and time.

Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.

The only women you can continue to love are those you lose.