Longing For Someone Quotes

“You are here to remind me of someone I long for, and what is it you long for yourself? We must have been together in an earlier life, you and I.”
― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji

“I want to see you. I feel more and more at with you now actually than ever before, I feel you more, actually more clarity, more confidence, more trust.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters

“I walk and walk with cold hands.
Back at the house it is filled with longing,
nothing to carry longing away.
I look back over my life.
I try to find analogies.
There are none.
I have longed for people before, I have loved people before.
Not like this.
It was not this.”
― Anne Carson

“Sweat dripped down his chest. She never thought she could envy a piece of fabric, until she saw the T-shirt kissing his skin the way she wanted to.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn

“Ghosts are the manifestation of the longing of loss.”
― Stewart Stafford

“A part of me wanted to hate her for making me fall in love, but hating her was damn near impossible. Despite the damage she did to me, it was all my fault. And despite how lonely and terrible I felt, I couldn’t shake her. Like now, her blue eyes were haunting me in my sleep.”
― Shanora Williams, 100 Proof

“Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again.
For then the night will more than pay
The hopeless longing of the day.”
― Matthew Arnold, Longing

“It cracks my heart wide open to think of all of us out there, wandering the world, so deeply hungry to be known. Defying our own disbelief in search of rest and respite.

It is the most beautiful thing, this universal human longing. We have not given up on the idea that we might one day taste it, at least some sense of it. However brief. However transient. However impossible to hold. It might be out there, so we keep seeking.

This, to me, is tremendously, tenderly, beautiful.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“All I have is this pale image of a clouded dream that could never be real, and I can’t seem to move on. She had this wild laugh about her, and it was special, you know… it was rare, it was different, and it was mine, and I can’t find it anywhere… because it’s gone. She was special, she was different, and different is hard to find.”
― Marilyn Velez

“Do you miss him?

When you spend so much time with someone, it's impossible not to.”
― Hannah Reynolds, The Summer of Lost Letters

“I used to think, in Belaire, that maybe you had gone to live with the List, and it hadn't suited you, and that one spring they'd bring you home dead. From homesickness. I saw how you would look, pale and sad."

"I did die," she said. "It was easy.”
― John Crowley, Engine Summer

“I want to close the door
Of an ancient house in the woods
Somewhere so far
And devour you.
I want to kiss you
Like I've never tasted your lips.
And I want to feel you
Like it's the last time for me on earth.”
― Nour Frikha, Pretty wounds

“My throat is burning.
Tears are spilling from my eyes.
I know I need to go but ...
I am drawn to ...

"Below the haze,
I can just make out
the ripples of my village lake.
It is a place I hold dear to my heart.
I feel so drawn to it.
A place of love for me and ....

"Sherwin.”
― Susan L. Marshall, Fleur of Yesterday

“These words: if classes were in session, today is the day Nathaniel would have done his lecture on the pheromones of trees. It’s a way of catching the attention of the undergraduates for a minute with the counterintuitive news the trees, so silent and so still, have ways of reaching out to one another, lines of communication, systems of warning. There is something satisfying in it, that the plain reality of the universe reads to us like magic. Henry might go further. He would point out how much our brains are limited by what we believe already - how once, when people expected to see ghosts, ghosts were what they saw.
Henry’s presence in the house, and in these words, triggers a second longing, too, a profound need for his daughter to be here, and not just as she is now - a grown woman in San Francisco, whom he calls on the phone to say yes, yes, it really is amazing - but also as she was once: a six-year-old girl in blue butterfly barrettes , trailing behind him and Henry, as she did on so many evenings back then, out in these same woods, reciting the names of the trees like catechism, ponderosa, manzanita, white oak, her pockets bulging with pinecones.
His daughter, as she is now, the grown woman in San Francisco, does not seem to understand what he is trying to tell her on the phone. “He’s cured?” She says. “How is that possible?” She has a lot of questions that he does not want to consider.
A rush of anger comes over him, washing everything else away.
“Just leave it,” he says to her. “Just leave it alone.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“Still, no matter how he felt about her, she always managed to find a way to seep back into his thoughts. Always.”
― Ardin Patterson, Vermin

“The true test of love lies in its ability to endure the longing”
― B.S. Murthy, Benign Flame: Saga of Love

“Already what I remember most is the happiness of seeing you. Having tea. Falling asleep. Waking up with you there awake in the kitchen. It was like being alive twice. I'll try to tell you better when I am stronger.”
― Linda Gregg

“Longing is unavoidable, so live with it as best you can. Let it be an ally--the hunger that propels the hunt.”
― Clint McCown, Total Balance Farm

“Life is a minefield and Love its coveted mine.”
― Stewart Stafford

“A kiss—to you a little thing!
Yet I heard the angels sing.
The stars all fell from out the sky,
We cannot forget—my heart and I!”
― Barbara Cartland, The Wicked Marquis

“Look at the stars,
look at the moon streaked in the water,
look at the Picasso face in the sky
that breathes the words of Lorca on the cheeks
of the crossed ones who long to touch,
too confused to wander.”
― Ruth Boukhari, Forlorn

“I have lived in light and darkness...everything I ever hoped for came from love, but wisdom arose from the ashes...”
― Bibiana Krall, Tangled Webs

“Lonely comes after losing someone or something you used to be with, you no more get its presence”
― Josephs Quartzy

“It’s only been a few days since I last saw him. But I don’t know why I feel as though my entire being has come alive; like rain falling on a barren desert.”
― P.S. Scott, The Prince and the Thief

“to save him from the middle of the ocean where he'd been existing without her for so long.”
― Tessa Bailey

“Deception... It follows us everywhere, slowly devouring our peace and sanity. It creates a wall between us preventing me from reaching you no matter how much I want to.”
― Imania Margria, Eyes

“Across the ethereal realms, whether in heaven's embrace or amidst the trials of hell, my heart declared that it was her, and only her, who held the key to my happiness. In any corner of existence, be it heaven or hell, she was the beacon of light that guided my path, the solace that soothed my tormented soul.”
― Asif Hossain, Serenade of Solitude

“As the sky unveils the path, may every step I take lead me closer to our fate.”
― Mystqx Skye

“Time moved too slowly. The steady march of the hours tormented me so that I felt myself falling to an illness. A fire was burning within me. Such was the heat that my thoughts scattered like a broken string of pearls.”
― Marcel Du Plessis

“Time moved too slowly. The steady march of the hours tormented me so that I felt myself falling to an illness. A fire was burning within me. Such was the heat that my thoughts scattered like a broken string of pearls.”
― Marcel M. du Plessis, The Doom of Balar