Quotes About Yearning

If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.

I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers and sisters had friends, and I used to watch them playing to try to work out what they did and how friendship worked.

It's excruciating to be away from your child.

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

You always love to fantasize you'll get your dream role.

It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return.

The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.

One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.

When I look at 'Fallen Angels,' I realize it is not a film that is truly about Hong Kong. It's more like my Hong Kong fantasy. I want Hong Kong to be quiet, with less people.

My mother was terribly important to me, and I know how much I yearned for her in my youth, but I don't think I truly trusted her.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

The truth is, even those who think Dreams only happen to someone else carry a Dream hidden deep in their heart, just hoping it can come true.

As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.

She's super sexy everybody wanna know bout her and the one that everybody want, but no one's ever got her. Because the way she get it in all of the men, even the women all try, all try.

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

Even in a fake democracy, people ought to get what they want once in a while.

Who wants to live forever?

It happens just because we need to want and to be wanted too, when love is here or gone to lie down in the darkness and listen to the warm.

I suffer every moment of every day that I am not with my son. All I want is to be reunited with my son.

Mama - Mama - I want so many things... I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.

The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.

Anyone who has dead straight hair wants curls.