Quotes About Longing

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.

Desire is proof of the availability.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Whoever desires is always poor.

Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.

Going without a thing enhances the desire to get it.

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about repression and internal angst.

Desire is an attempt to feel the void.

All roads are long which lead to one's heart's desire.

Every heart desires a mate.

The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire.

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.

Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.

Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.