Quotes About Longing

I had long wanted to write a love story, and I had long - wisely, I felt - shirked the challenge because I felt it the hardest story of all to write.

Candy is childhood, the best and bright moments you wish could have lasted forever.

I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

I think a lot of people secretly wish they were a rock star, and I'm no exception.

Love isn't always pretty, it's not perfect and it's messy and it hurts and sometimes as much as you want to say you love someone, you have to say I wish I didn't love you.

Maybe sometimes, when I see some kids, you know, with their families. It's making me cry. You know, maybe when I ask them, sometimes, like, 'How does it feel to have a dad?' And, you know, they tell me this great answers, and sometimes I wish my dad was here.

I wish I'd done a tenth year of the 'Roseanne' show.

Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.

It was tragic every single time my mom told me we were moving. I would always envy my friends who had grown up in the same house their entire life, and they had markings on the wall of 'me at five years old' and all that. It made me so sad. I wished I'd had that.

Even in past years, when I wasn't in the Super Bowl, I wished I was.

I wouldn't say it's to the point where I hate him or nothing like that because he's not with my mom or he wasn't there when I was growing up. He's my father whether I like it or not - he helped give me life. So I still love him and everything. Sometimes I wished he was with me, and other times I didn't.

As you stopped to say hello, oh, you wished me well, you couldn't tell that I'd been crying over you.

Every girl wishes she was Juliet in some version of their life.

I'm not that rebellious. There's a part of me that wishes I was that.

Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?

When I was growing up in the theater there were all these amazing girls telling me about the guy who broke their heart. And I was always wishing that it was me.

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

'The Ways of a Woman in Love' is one of my very favorite early Johnny Cash songs. I like the way the lyric talks about the character walking by the girl's house and wishing he was the one in her arms.

I understand being alone. I understand not liking it, wishing for something else.

I really like 'Wish U Were Here.' It's about being on tour, but really missing someone and wishing she was there with me. I shot the music video at different places all around the country, where I've been on tour.

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?