Love And Longing Quotes

19 quotes from 18 authors

These verses capture the ache of yearning that lingers after a goodbye, the quiet pulse of hope that refuses to fade. From a trembling confession in the dark to a gentle observation of nature’s quiet devotion, each line pulls at the heart. If this mood moves you, try the Passion or Heartbreak pages for deeper intensity.

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Give to God just one thought of sincere love and longing and He responds: 'My child, one silent call from the depths…

Daya Mata

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“He saw the monsters that love and longing could make, and they all had human faces.”

Roan Parrish

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“Twilight-kind, oppressing the heart as with a condensed atmosphere of dreamy undefined love and longing.”

George MacDonald

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“Short on all the things I don't want, I'm full of love and longing. Take me by the hand and tell me,…

Sara Quin

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It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended…

John Steinbeck

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“It is queer, but my love and longing for the world are always deepened by my absence from it; it's wondrous, don't…

Kate Morton

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“A slow-motion kiss that took the place of the million things she wanted to say to him and couldn’t because he didn’t…

C.C. Gibbs

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“I have accepted that this is how it’s going to be that love and longing are going to take turns to sleep…

Sakshi Narula

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“And he walked off down the path with his jaunty, independent stride. And I stood there where he left me, tremulous with…

Sylvia Plath

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“In the midst of silence Lyra stood by Lanre's body and spoke his name. Her voice was a commandment. Her voice was…

Patrick Rothfuss

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“He can remember that all beauty in animals and plants is a silent, enduring form of love and longing, and he can…

Rainer Maria Rilke

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“A woman wishes to be swept up by a man’s fervent feelings for her, by love and longing and depth of feeling.…

Melanie Dickerson

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Patti Callahan Henry’s THE STORIES WE TELL is a lyrical exploration of love and longing, secrets and suspicion, family and friendship, all…

Mary Kay Andrews

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If it wasn't for this person's privacy, I'd be able to talk pretty freely about this subject on a personal level. The…

Justin Vernon

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“Don't you find it remarkable that the whole world can be involved in this madness we call war, and all the while…

Kate Morton

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“scrub oak trees. Kieran was leaning against him, pinning him to the tree, and they were kissing. Cristina hesitated a moment, blood…

Cassandra Clare

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“...Grimacing, I plunged a hand into the fouled water to clear the clog, morbid curiosity drawing my youthful eyes to the gray…

Rick Yancey

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“People have rituals for communing with the dead, rituals that depend more on the idiosyncrasies of the individual than on the influence…

Barry Eisler

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“But if we look a little deeper we shall find there is a pathetic, one might almost say a tragic, side to…

Jerome K. Jerome

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