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title: "24 Love Longing Quotes by 23 authors"
description: "Browse 24 Love Longing quotes by 23 authors. Discover the best Love Longing sayings and thoughts."
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> [Can better understand the value of love is the longing for love that!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mak-786/can-better-understand-the-value-of-love-is-the-longing-for-love-that/)

[Mak\_786](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mak-786/)

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> [“He saw the monsters that love and longing could make, and they all had human faces.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roan-parrish/he-saw-the-monsters-that-love-and-longing-could-make-and-they-all-had/)

[Roan Parrish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roan-parrish/)

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> [Some feelings are stronger than fear: love, longing, desire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/luanne-rice/some-feelings-are-stronger-than-fear-love-longing-desire/)

[Luanne Rice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/luanne-rice/)

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> [Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/love-is-the-longing-for-the-half-of-ourselves-we-have-lost/)

[Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/)

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> [“nite, rain, love, longing - kepekaan ku ketika mencintaimu”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yhaz/nite-rain-love-longing-kepekaan-ku-ketika-mencintaimu/)

[yhaz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yhaz/)

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> [“Love is a longing for becoming one with another human being that nobody of us can avoid.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tatjana-ostojic/love-is-a-longing-for-becoming-one-with-another-human-being-that/)

[Tatjana Ostojic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tatjana-ostojic/)

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> [I miss you yam, I miss you so much, I'm still hoping that you will comeback to me.I love you. I'm longing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jimenez-cherry-belle/i-miss-you-yam-i-miss-you-so-much-i-m-still-hoping-that-you-will/)

[Jimenez Cherry Belle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jimenez-cherry-belle/)

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> [“Twilight-kind, oppressing the heart as with a condensed atmosphere of dreamy undefined love and longing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/twilight-kind-oppressing-the-heart-as-with-a-condensed-atmosphere-of/)

[George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/it-would-be-good-to-live-in-a-perpetual-state-of-leave-taking-never/)

[John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/)

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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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-quin/short-on-all-the-things-i-don-t-want-i-m-full-of-love-and-longing/)

[Sara Quin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-quin/)

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> [In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/izumi-shikibu/in-love-longing-i-listen-to-the-monk-s-bell-i-will-never-forget-you/)

[Izumi Shikibu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/izumi-shikibu/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sakshi-narula/i-have-accepted-that-this-is-how-it-s-going-to-be-that-love-and/)

[Sakshi Narula](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sakshi-narula/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-morton/it-is-queer-but-my-love-and-longing-for-the-world-are-always-deepened/)

[Kate Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-morton/)

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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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melanie-dickerson/a-woman-wishes-to-be-swept-up-by-a-man-s-fervent-feelings-for-her-by/)

[Melanie Dickerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melanie-dickerson/)

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> [“In his eyes I could see the same love, the same longing. I wanted to kiss him; I wanted him to kiss…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kailin-gow/in-his-eyes-i-could-see-the-same-love-the-same-longing-i-wanted-to/)

[Kailin Gow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kailin-gow/)

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> [You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfect lovable. Due to ignorance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/you-are-really-in-search-of-yourself-without-knowing-it-you-are-love/)

[Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-c-gibbs/a-slow-motion-kiss-that-took-the-place-of-the-million-things-she/)

[C.C. Gibbs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-c-gibbs/)

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> [“I yearned for love, I prayed that love Would soften a way to my heart. To turn the sun where the shadows…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juke-blue/i-yearned-for-love-i-prayed-that-love-would-soften-a-way-to-my-heart/)

[Juke Blue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juke-blue/)

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> [“Music was a chain forged half of silences and half of sound, love was nothing without longing and loss, and were time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-helprin/music-was-a-chain-forged-half-of-silences-and-half-of-sound-love-was/)

[Mark Helprin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-helprin/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/823/mark-helprin-1171_longing_music-was-a-chain-forged-half-of-silence_253492.png)

> [“All of the love and the longing a body can contain was spun into not more than two and a half minutes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-patchett/all-of-the-love-and-the-longing-a-body-can-contain-was-spun-into-not/)

[Ann Patchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-patchett/)

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> [“To my unsuspecting love. When I look into your eyes, I lose all sense of time and place. Reason robbed, clear thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julianne-donaldson/to-my-unsuspecting-love-when-i-look-into-your-eyes-i-lose-all-sense/)

[Julianne Donaldson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julianne-donaldson/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-morton/don-t-you-find-it-remarkable-that-the-whole-world-can-be-involved-in/)

[Kate Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-morton/)

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> [“He undressed, lay down, put out the light. Two names he whispered into his pillow, the few chaste northern syllables that meant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mann/he-undressed-lay-down-put-out-the-light-two-names-he-whispered-into/)

[Thomas Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-mann/)

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> [Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ismail-merchant/well-the-musicals-give-emphasis-to-love-longing-melancholy-sadness/)

[Ismail Merchant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ismail-merchant/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/565/ismail-merchant-44947_actor_well-the-musicals-give-emphasis-to-love_2956751.jpg)

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