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Quotes About Longing

The return makes one love the farewell.
~ Alfred de Musset
life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream
~ Alfred de Musset
I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them
~ Alfred de Musset
Your name, merely your name, floods my brain to a point of sweet disgust.
~ Alfred de Musset
My heart, still full of her, traveled over her face, and found her there no more... I had thought to myself that a woman unknown had adopted by chance that voice and those eyes and I let the chilly statue pass looking athe skies
~ Alfred de Musset
Hakiki hayatta ebedi ve mutlak a?klar aramaya kalk??mak, ?ehir meydanlar?nda Venüs kadar güzel kad?nlar aramaya yahut da bülbüllerin Beethoven'?n senfonilerini çalmalar?n? istemeye müsavidir.
~ Alfred de Musset
Porte ta vie ailleurs, ô toi qui fus ma vie ; Verse ailleurs ce trésor que j'avais pour tout bien. Va chercher d'autres lieux, toi qui fus ma patrie, Va fleurir, ô soleil, ô ma belle chérie, Fais riche un autre amour et souviens-toi du mien.
~ Alfred de Musset
Malgré moi, l'infini me tourmente
~ Alfred de Musset
L'absence ni le temps ne sont rien quand on aime.
~ Alfred de Musset
I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
~ Pat Oliphant
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
~ Billie Holiday
I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
~ Lady Gregory
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
~ Angela Carter
Porto is my team since I was a young boy. I was in the stands for all the matches. I was too young to go to the Champions League final in 2004, but I celebrated afterwards. I watch all their games when I can. At some point in my career, I want to go back.
~ Ruben Neves
I sat in a theater when I was 11 years old and watched 'The Empire Strikes Back' from 10 in the morning until 10 at night the day it came out.
~ Joe Russo
Would I have watched another season of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. Would I have watched another two seasons of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. The fact that I would easily have watched much, much more than I got made the ending so much more poignant and stronger and better for me.
~ D. B. Weiss
I missed the television train at some point. I don't know what happened, but now I've created a complex about it. I'm missing out on what everybody's watching, and now I can't even begin to think about starting to watch a television show because it's been so long. I don't even have a Netflix account.
~ Dakota Johnson
I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.
~ Natalie Portman
When I was a kid, and I was watching TV, I just loved it so much that I wanted to crawl into that TV.
~ Bruce Eric Kaplan
The sea was at the bottom of my road, and I seemed to spend my childhood in it or on it, hearing, tasting, smelling it. Now, still, I need to be near water as often as possible.
~ Berlie Doherty
When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.
~ Georg Trakl
Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. 'Waters of March,' I wish I had written 'My Baby Just Cares for Me,' I wish I had written 'This Will Be Our Year,' I mean, there's millions of them. 'Wouldn't It Be Nice?'
~ Zooey Deschanel
The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.
~ Josiah Royce
I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn't even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if went to a school near her, just maybe... I was really remedial about girls in so many ways.
~ Ben Affleck