Quotes About Longing

The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.

I have learned that my quenchless longing for life is, after all, unconsciously, a secret, unutterable yearning after God; for how can you conceive of life apart from Him?

Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

Loneliness has been following me my whole life.

We all want to be loved, don't we? Everyone looks for a way of finding love. It's a constant search for affection in every walk of life.

I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.

When I was young, life seemed long and endless to me.

There is nothing on earth that can satisfy our deepest longing. We long to see God. The leaves of life are rustling with the rumor that we will - and we won't be satisfied until we do.

If you've ever been hungry, you can never be full.

There is someone that I must meet again. And until that day… not even Death himself can take my life away!

What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.

It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.

The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.

My life was once whiskey, tears and cigarettes... now it's snot, tears and a color of poop. Bliss. I do miss the whiskey, though.