Quotes About Longing

Angst is not the human condition, it's the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can't get.

Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul.

A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

Boredom is desire seeking desire.

Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.

All men desire to be immortal.

Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.

He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.

There is no limit to desire but desire's needs.

Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.

The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.

I believe there is something on this earth that you desire more than anything, and it isn't me.

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

expectation isn't the same as desire

Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?

Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.

And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace; and out of desire, accomplishment.

I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more.

I dream of vague shapes that hint of my heart's desire.

When I try to portray to myself my heart's desire, nothing happens.

Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.

Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.