Quotes About Yearning

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.

I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

'Five Easy Pieces' got to me pretty good. I remember seeing it and thinking, 'That is so cool. I would love to be able to do that.'

Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.

I daydream about romance and stuff.

Deep down that's all you really want. You may not like or be comfortable with certain forms of appreciation or love, but you do want it.

Our delusions of omniscience play a role in our ideas of not only what we want but also what we want to escape.

If you deprive yourself of something, you're going to want it more.

If you desire, you are restless.

Let's face it - no matter how independent you are, you still have this nagging need to be desired.

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

Our deep desires define us, really.

It's always really funny to watch someone who really wants something who isn't getting it but who's desperate for it.

Everyone wants, wants, wants... and when they have, they feel desperate.

People on the stage are desperate to do the screens, and people on the screens are desperate to do theater.

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

I realize that the wish to write in a new language derives from a kind of desperation.

It is sad when people can't connect, and the sense of desperation that you feel when there is nothing to look forward to.

Absence is absence, you know? The loss of someone can be just as devastating if they're alive as if they're dead.

D.C. is in my blood, my diction, my sensibility and style. I am, though, in love with a city that cannot fully love me back.