Quotes About Longing

I've got huge affection for Everton. It was my life for over a decade.

New York is such an amazing place. It's a city that I've wanted to live in since I was a little girl, my brother and I both. We both live here now and we've lived here for decades. My kids were born here.

I'm dedicated to finding the girl of my dreams.

Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country.

Though I stay in Delhi, I often think about Himachal.

I really wanted to be in Love - they were making it. But I was in the demon Doors.

If you deprive yourself of something, you're going to want it more.

When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.

If you desire, you are restless.

Let's face it - no matter how independent you are, you still have this nagging need to be desired.

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

Our deep desires define us, really.

Everyone wants, wants, wants... and when they have, they feel desperate.

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

I get weak-kneed when I see chocolates and dessert.

Absence is absence, you know? The loss of someone can be just as devastating if they're alive as if they're dead.

I've been devoted to Alison Krauss for many, many years.

D.C. is in my blood, my diction, my sensibility and style. I am, though, in love with a city that cannot fully love me back.

If I had any advice to give to anybody, it would be record your parents talking so that, when you're longing to hear that voice, you can play the tape. But for me, it's a little often. You don't always need to be reminded that he isn't here anymore.

I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his kisses and mix tapes. During the year of elation and longing, he never mentioned that he had a girlfriend who lived across the street.

I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.