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Quotes About Pining

At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much, much more than they can stomach, but the appetite doesn't converse much with the stomach. Everyone is hungry and not only for food - for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much.. Everyone is hungry and not only for food - for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them... Most often you have to make the world you want out of yourself
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I am always lonely for things I've never had and people I've never been.
~ Nikki Giovanni
I wonder if you can understand, I never really knew what it was to want, until you.
~ Nora Roberts
People carry in their hearts an inconsolable longing for something and they are never quite sure what it is.
~ Clifford Thurlow
Years of yearning had made her sensitive, the way a starving dog twitches its nostrils at the faintest scent of food.
~ Celeste Ng
Samiha. Entonces
~ Orhan Pamuk
You get so you kind of like the feeling of being hungry.
~ Orson Scott Card
Desire is an attempt to feel the void.
~ Hamza Yusuf Hanson
Summer seems so cold without you, winter is even colder.
~ Lemony Snicket
Unrequited love is always a great thing.
~ Neil LaBute
I experienced unrequited love early.
~ Jane Hamilton
The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook.
~ Sean Astin
A desire of desires: the melancholy.
~ Tolstoy, L. N.
Longing, for everyone, is always there, isn't it? More intense at some times than others. You get closer to less longing - an odd metaphoric phrasing, I realize - then, you are further and longing more than ever again.
~ Susan Minot
The night is starry, and she is not with me. That is all.
~ Pablo Neruda
Apans?z niye gelir bilmem bunca aÅŸk bana kendimi böyle üzgün, seni uzak bulurken?
~ Pablo Neruda
but you're giving a very good impression of a lovelorn fool pining for his girl.
~ William Boyd
Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.
~ Henry Rollins
A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
TAKE THIS LONGING
~ Leonard Cohen
I'm hungry, he whimpered instead. Food is on its way. No, he said. The other kind of hunger. P198
~ Darren Shan
Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
I'll go find a shadow, and sigh till he come (Phebe)
~ William Shakespeare