Longing proverbs

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◆ I don't know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.

- Salvador Plascencia99

◆ My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.

- Stephanie Laurens99

◆ If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.

- Robert Goolrick99

◆ 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.

- Fernando Pessoa99

◆ Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.

- Elizabeth Gilbert99

◆ Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be.

- Stephanie Laurens99

◆ We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

- Carson McCullers99

◆ Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

- Louisa May Alcott99

◆ Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.

- Brian Andreas99

◆ She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.

- T.H. White99

◆ I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

- Jonathan Safran Foer99

◆ There's nothing good about goodnight when it means goodbye.

- Jeff Thomas99

◆ It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.

- George Eliot99

◆ It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.

- David Foster Wallace99

◆ Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.

- Roger de Bussy-Rabutin99