Quotes about Longing

You know how it feels when you're in love with somebody and you long to be with that person? God wants us to feel that way about Him.

I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.

Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher's regular, what normal woman wants affection?

We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.

I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up in its stead. We are apt to fancy that we shall be happy and satisfied if we possess ourselves of such and such particular enjoyments; but either by reason of their emptiness, or the natural inquietude of the mind, we have no sooner gained one point, but we extend our hopes to another. We still find new inviting scenes and landscapes lying behind those which at a distance terminated our view.