825 Quotes About Longing

He’s here. I feel him. His body is touching mine and it’s very real. We’re holding each other; it’s just all too…perfect?

...perhaps, also this short embrace may infuse in their veins a little of this thrill which they would not have known without it, and will give to those two dead souls, brought to life in a second, the rapid and divine sensation of this intoxication, of this madness which gives to lovers more happiness in an instant than other men can gather during a whole lifetime.

I incessantly look for water in wells dug by men, and I have drunk enough sand to prove it.

How could I want one thing so much and its exact opposite at the same time?

I recognise your body in liana; your expression in the eyes of a frightened gazelle; the beauty of your face in that of the moon, your tresses in the plumage of peacocks... alas! Timid friend- no one object compares to you.

I do not want to eat or drink, or i will lose the taste of you in my mouth

She made him yearn for a future his kind could never have, and a connection he sure as hell didn’t deserve.

I miss that smile covered with the tears of longing.

I was like a ten-year-old kid who had been scraped off a mother's love so sudden and surreal that I kept hoping I could chant a few magical words and slowly, Mama Jas would materialise in front of me.