Quotes About Longing

Lead such a life, that, when you die, the people may mourn you, and while you are alive they long for your company.

Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life.

You see in all my life I've never found what I couldn't resist, what I couldn't turn down. I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?

There's gotta be more to life than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me.

I haven't had everything from life. I've had too much.

Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God. Behind all the hunger of our life is God. All desire is finally a desire for Him.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream

Do you wanna leave soon? No, I want enough time to be in love with everything... And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

Places that are empty of you are empty of life.

There are so many things I could say about you but none of them can describe you fully. You are the beauty I was waiting for. The love of my life of whom I dreamed day and night.

It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.

Even in this world where you're getting everything you need and having this nice life, there's still loneliness and longing and disconnection.

You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.

When gloaming treads the heels of day And birds sit cowering on the spray, Along the flowery hedge I stray, To meet mine ain dear somebody.

Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.

life is long between the desire and the spasm.