825 Quotes About Longing

I admire you with the kind of love that wants to throw a chair your way just to see what you do. Do you know what I mean?

Roxie pasted a smile on her face, but inside, she yearned like she stood in a field staring at the distant stars above—longing, longing, longing.

My only enemyis the miles of distancethat's there between us,my favorite placeis the road that leadsme to you- the long road home

… so delicate, but potent. It makes us a bit more human--is that ache in your heart for a place [or someone] that no longer exists... a sneaky magician. One that takes us by surprise in the most lucid way possible.

Do you miss it?" she asked, because there was longing in his words, and his kingdom sounded quite astonishing, not like the shadowy place of sorrow she'd been told about."I belong there," he said.

Fishwives. Fishwidows. And we all set out to be mermaids.

I don't know what it is that you expect of me, but we're here. I have always had little room to explore and yet you are determined to dig into me. But I encourage you to find whatever it is that you must explore within me

That beautiful nibbling pain of being in love with someone that you never meet physically heightens the intensity of your desire and longing, a powerful sensation that feverishly shudders your being, yet, at the same time, you also question the rationality of your cognitive judgment whether it’s worth taking the risk at the expense of your sanity, and, consequently, being broken in the end.

I was always longing for something. Longing in my body was so familiar I didn’t usually notice the feeling; that would have been like a magnet experiencing its own field, the pull toward, the hungry mouth. It was easy to mistake the emptiness of longing as something that wanted filling with M&M’s, time with friends, new clothes, accomplishments, a boyfriend, and it was also easy to be frightened by the ceaseless dark cave call of I am alone and I may die.