Quotes About Yearning

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

Even in past years, when I wasn't in the Super Bowl, I wished I was.

I listened to 'En la Ceremony' and had always wished it had some flamenco guitar.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Every girl wishes she was Juliet in some version of their life.

I'm not that rebellious. There's a part of me that wishes I was that.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?

When I was growing up in the theater there were all these amazing girls telling me about the guy who broke their heart. And I was always wishing that it was me.

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

'The Ways of a Woman in Love' is one of my very favorite early Johnny Cash songs. I like the way the lyric talks about the character walking by the girl's house and wishing he was the one in her arms.

Before I moved to the city I spent every Saturday sitting in church wishing I could be living on my own, doing what I wanted.

I understand being alone. I understand not liking it, wishing for something else.

I really like 'Wish U Were Here.' It's about being on tour, but really missing someone and wishing she was there with me. I shot the music video at different places all around the country, where I've been on tour.

The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them... and royally squander their lives with her.

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

'Lord of the Rings' was my jam. I was so depressed when I realized that I couldn't live in Middle-earth. And I was so sad when I was eleven and didn't get a letter from Hogwarts saying that I was going to be a wizard!

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

My theory is that many of the things that move us are things we long for but find hard to do.

I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!