Quotes About Yearning

If you want someone to miss you, go secretly and spray your fragrance somewhere.

It's a great feeling to be wanted, but it's more exciting to be inaccessible.

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.

I wanted to be Joni Mitchell.

I wanted passionately to be a priest.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Wanting attention is genderless. It's human.

I've been wanting an ice cream truck forever.

Some people talk about children wanting to be born as though somewhere out there in the collective unconscious there's a spirit, or a thought or an idea that wants to be born. And I sometimes feel that way about stories... that they're there and they want to be told.

Rock and roll is about desire, about wanting something better. I think my characters all want something better. My understanding of the rock and roll dream is that a kid in an isolated place or a small town or an underprivileged world could transcend it somehow.

I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.

The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.

There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

I was a very wanting child.

We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things.

I've been wanting to have a baby since I was 2 years old - I'm destined to be a mother.

I'm into clothes, but in a way that's related to wanting to walk into a film noir movie. You know, I love to go to vintage stores, but mostly it's stuff that I don't have anywhere to wear... I don't have the life that goes with the clothes.

I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it.

There's nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.

Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.

My girl crush is Dolly Parton. I've never met her, but I keep wanting to run into her in a grocery story or something!

I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic.