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Quotes About Longing

Do you know," he whispered very slowly, never taking his eyes from hers, "just how badly I want to make love to you? Not to your body, Natalie, but to you?
~ Adele Ashworth
I think I've missed you every day," he whispered.
~ Adele Ashworth
I do worship ancient hungers and chains dripping blood, but I am so tired of the taste of my heart.
~ Adrian C. Louis
When you lose someone, they take a bigger place in your heart, not a smaller one. Every day it grows, because you don't stop loving them. You wish you could talk to them. You need their advice. But life doesn't always give us what we need, and it's difficult.
~ Adriana Trigiani
I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.
~ Adrienne Rich
because life is short and you too are thirsty.
~ Adrienne Rich
I ache, brilliantly.
~ Adrienne Rich
It means that most of the time I am eager, longing for the possibility of telling you. That these possibilities may seem frightening, but not destructive, to me. That I feel strong enough to hear your tentative and groping words. That we both know we are trying all the time, to extend the possibilities of truth between us. The possibility of life between us.
~ Adrienne Rich
What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.
~ Ralph Bakshi
A kiss is often about the future and the past. A lost dream, about the discretion of the idealism.
~ David Means
I miss it like crazy, but I don't eat pasta anymore.
~ Sammi Giancola
I guess its the same with all children really, they have this sort of pathetic longing to be like their parents were.
~ Rick Stein
You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
~ James D. Watson
There's no shame in longing for peace.
~ Benny Gantz
I really, really missed the Pennsylvania countryside and hills.
~ Tawni O'Dell
My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because his whole life was cars. Sadly, he didn't live to see the day when I could have done that for him, which still hurts.
~ Bruce Forsyth
There are days when I even long for the paralegal job that once upon a time made me so miserable. It wasn't the perfect fit for me but it was satisfying to go to sleep each night after a hard day's work at the office.
~ Suleika Jaouad
Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
~ Eric Hoffer
I feel perhaps my heart is still in China.
~ Jung Chang
I would shoot for long periods in Chennai, and now I wish I spent more time with my family. That is what matters the most.
~ Jeetendra
I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.
~ Rufus Sewell
el corazón hambriento de cualquier migaja se alimenta
~ Pierre la Mure
Quiero est un verbe étonnant qui veut tout dire. C'est vouloir, désirer, aimer, c'est quérir et c'est chérir. Tour à tour et selon le ton qu'on lui donne, il exprime la passion la plus impérative ou le caprice le plus léger. C'est un ordre ou une prière, une déclaration ou une condescendance. Parfois, ce n'est qu'une ironie
~ Pierre Louÿs