Quotes About Yearning

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Julie

I wish I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me.

Love is a wonderful thing that one misses.

As the evening progressed, Scott said that he was looking forward to settling down, but that he hadn't yet found the right person. The way he looked at me when he said that made me feel he might be wondering whether I was that person.

'Hiraeth' means homesickness to a home to which you cannot return: the grief of the lost places of your past. I fell in love with the word and instantly connected to it. It reminded me of the days when I had left my home in Gwalior, and I had that strange pull in my stomach, and now I can so relate to this word.

I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.

There are no words to describe my feelings for Errol Flynn.

So the lover must struggle for words.

Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can't share.

Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.

When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.

The thrill of autograph collecting is getting close to a world you're not part of.

Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be so much more thrilling when you're actively miserable.

Television is where I'm most at home. I'm not one of those TV presenters who secretly yearns to be a Hollywood actress. Live telly is what I thrive on.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people's throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.

That's part of fashion's promise: that a girlfriend or boyfriend or a promotion are just one tie or sweater or pair of shoes away.

In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

Cine n-ar dori s

If only the entire week was Thursdays..." ~ Yuu

I'm afraid... that when I see her, I'll want to keep living. I'm afraid... - Yuu

To me, the hours that pass by each day are just an agony that I want to throw in the trash." ~ Juri Mutou

Why does my heart still cling to the blossoms though I thought all attachments long gone?

Beyond this life and This world I'll have it til My heart's content: The bright moon that passed over The horizon before I had my fill.