Quotes About Longing

I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I'd trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.

I'd go without food if I could have a flower.

We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water.

How do they taste? They taste like more.

I almost die for food, and let me have it!

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

The appetite grows with eating.

Hunger is never delicate.

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.

Few love what they may have.

Long only for what you have.

It is not customary to love what one has.

My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it'd created the only type of guy I could touch - a fantasy one.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.

In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.

We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.

Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

Turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you.