Quotes About Longing

What he wants is hard to say, but when he wants it, he wants it badly.

Requiem Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you 'grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. (1880-1884)

But if it be never - if I can never hold sweet converse again with her, or look upon her face, or know from her her love; why, then, this side the grave, I will live as becomes the man whom she loves...

When he thought about her, he no longer wanted to live.

Well . . . I can come back in twenty years, if you like.

You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.

I think we're really hungry for family in America, especially when I feel like people are really pulled apart from their families.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

I would love to get a pug. A puppy, a baby pug - I just want one so bad.

Our longing for immortality is good! It was put there on purpose. We were meant - from the moment of our creation - to live forever.

I saw an early cut of 'The Disaster Artist,' and I thought it was inspiring in a lot of ways, and it made me realize it had been so long since I had tried to make a film or to try to - you know, the book was obviously my first kind of big creative pursuit I had control over.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

I feel like everybody has an old flame: if you've had someone you've broken up with and then gotten back together with. Everybody goes through that. It's always a good moment when you've been away from somebody you loved for so long.

I've flown in space four times now, so it's going to be hard in that respect, but I certainly look forward to going back to Earth. I've been up here for a really long time and sometimes, when I think about it, I feel like I've lived my whole life up here.

There's certainly a loss of connection with folks on the ground who I care for and love and I want to spend time with.

I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.

If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.

Forever Young, by Dylan, is one of my favorite songs.

Tito Ortiz vs. Chuck Liddell III, the fight that all the fans wanted to see for the longest time and never got a chance to. I never got a fair shake when I was with the UFC against Chuck, any of the times I ever fought against him.

I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.

I really miss the Australian lifestyle and being around my friends and family.

It's hard to have a fruitful romantic life when I'm never in one place for long.

I miss Philippine mangoes, you just can't get them here. Mangoes, you can't get lanzones here, you can't get siniguelas, all these fruits that I grew up with.

Sometimes I wish I could just go back to Florida and, like, date my home-town boyfriend. It's really frustrating whenever I can't go and do something because I know it's going to be on the internet.