SaudadeOne line a day

Love & Longing · wanting, and wanting back

Quotes about love and longing

For long distance, for heartbreak, for wanting someone who isn’t here.

One verified literary line a day. A private place to write what it brings up.

Love quotes are everywhere. Most are greeting-card lines nobody ever wrote. These are different: real lines from the people who felt it first — the ache of wanting, of waiting, of loving someone more in your head than in the room.

“Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky — The Brothers Karamazov — trans. Constance Garnett, 1912

This is one line. The rest of the Love & Longing thread is inside Saudade — one line a day, chosen by a person, with a private page to write what it brings up. Over the weeks, your pages become a book of your own.

Read tomorrow’s line

Writers in this thread

Their lines arrive one a day, inside the app.

For readers, writers and artists

For readers, poetry lovers, and anyone who keeps a short private writing habit. Every day’s line can be a prompt: writers can use it to find a place to begin, poets a first line, painters and illustrators a mood. Nobody reads your page but you.

Try this
Think about the things you never said to them. Write them now.

Why these lines

Every line in Saudade is chosen by a person, quoted word for word from the original book, and carries its author, source and year. Nothing is generated, paraphrased or scraped. Never AI.

Most quote sites are full of lines nobody ever said. Ours you can look up.