Quotes About Longing

I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older.

I am never going to be able to rest easy in having established a posthumous connection to my father. I'll always be groping for what I can't have.

I just longed for certain connections and attachments with another person that I really lacked, I believe, growing up.

I see my husband and the way he is with his daughters, responsive and alive and sensitive in ways my father would have liked to be. My father would have loved to be a man like that, and he surrounded himself with men like that, but he couldn't be.

It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.

I realize more and more I miss my 'Survivor' friends when I'm not around them.

I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.

That first replica of the Globe that I saw at the Chicago World's Fair was a suspect thing, made of plywood and papier-mache. But I kept seeing other replicas at other fairs in the '30s, so I developed a longing to see London.

Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience's hopes and dreams and makes them seem attainable, all the while maintaining enough distance to sustain the fantasy.

'Swan Lake' was my favourite piece of music when I was younger, and I never had a chance to skate to it.

I really miss Kanpur. I am very fond of the rasgullas of Ghosh Sweets. I miss strolling in Naveen Market and on Mall Road.

I've always wanted to be able to hold my breath for like, ever, and swim in the water like a fish.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.

I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long for more fiction - so that I can switch off.

His mind strayed from his work to her. His dreams were never of anything but her. There was nothing beautiful in the world that didn't, in some way, remind him of her. And he began to wonder if he really did have a heart after all. For didn't you have to possess a heart to be so dangerously close to losing it?

Didn't you ever have a father yourself? You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.' So I figured it's because I never had a father that I don't want one now. A person can't miss something she never had.

Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.

MISS U MIS U MIS U There's a shortage of S's and only two M's, so the last one is an upside-down W. I fall asleep to the sound of Dad murmuring into the phone behind his bedroom door. In the morning there's a message from Mom: ME TOO PICKLE

Part of me was excited. But part of me was really tired. I had been carrying something for a long time. I needed to put it down.

What the heart desires is medicine to itself. Does that make sense?

What the heart desires is medicine to itself.

Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.

When the Deep Purple falls, Over sleepy garden walls, And the stars begin to flicker in the sky, Thru the mist of a memory You wander back to me, Breathing my name with a sigh. In the still of the night, Once again I hold you tight, Tho' you're gone, your love lives on When moonlight beams. And as long as my heart will beat Lover, we'll always meet Here in my Deep Purple dreams.