Longing Quotes

"The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd: the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible, nostalgia for what never was, the desire for what could have been, regret over not being someone else, dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are." "I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time." "The heart wants what it wants or else it does not care" "I just hope that you miss me a little when I'm gone " "My life is yours to miss " "I'm trying to find a million things that I could say that make you wanna stay " "The nostalgia for things we have lost is more bearable than the nostalgia for things that never were" "The longing for a destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life." "We love evermore everything that isn’t, and are always pining for what could never be. " "I like for you to be still: it is as though you are absent, and you hear me from far away and my voice does not touch you " "I found it hard to find someone like you" "I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place" "Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air " "You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you" "Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love"