825 Quotes About Longing

I still wonder what made him leave. Were they my demons or his own?

you’re gone andyour unfinished poemlies alone on my desk—empty of tears,I only hope it rains today

We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread.

The sensation Ihad experienced vanished like smoke from a snuffed candle, leaving behind wisps of namelesslonging.

He loved her; in some ways he was devoted to her. But he couldn't reach her, and it was the same on her side. It was as if they'd drunk some fatal potion that would keep them forever apart, even though they lived in the same house, ate at the same table, slept in the same bed.

See how community is only a good thing when you're a part of it.

I go fishing in my mind. I put out bait, the bait of my own longing, my desire, and my hunger for connection, for a tug of something alive at the end of a line. Something that I may have to struggle with to pull in, but that will be wild and important to me, whether I keep it or let it go.

I know that touching you will be understanding my fingers for the first time.

She looks after him, feeling a wave of longing, loneliness. Not sexual particularly but to do with the nature of cities, the thousands of strangers you pass in a day, probably never to see again.