Longing Quotes

"Time is the longest distance between two places."

Tennessee Williams

"I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky."

John Masefield

"My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here."

Robert Burns

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope."

Jane Austen

"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder."

Thomas Haynes Bayly

"I have little left in myself – I must have you."

Charlotte Brontë

"She has a fire that burns when I go away and cools when I come near; where did she find such a fire?"

Thiruvalluvar

"Love, my heart longs day and night for the meeting with you."

"But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, and the sound of a voice that is still!"

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"The heart looks into space to be away from earth."

Richard Jefferies

"The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument."

"Green, how I want you green."

Federico García Lorca

"It was not in my fate to be united with my beloved; had I lived longer, I would only have waited longer."

Mirza Ghalib

"I cannot exist without you – I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again."

John Keats

"I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia."

Vita Sackville-West

"To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves."

Federico García Lorca

"Fill the flowers with colour, let the spring breeze blow; come, so the garden may come alive."

Faiz Ahmed Faiz

"O foolish heart, what has happened to you? After all, what is the cure for this pain?"

Mirza Ghalib

"Every leaf, every bud knows the state of my heart."

Mir Taqi Mir

"Thou art to me a delicious torment."

"Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age."

John Dryden

"Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you."

"Look, is it the heart or the soul – from where does this smoke rise?"

Mir Taqi Mir

"Last night, your lost memory came to my heart, like spring arriving quietly in a wilderness."

Faiz Ahmed Faiz