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Quotes About Longing

I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.
~ Willie Nelson
I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body
~ Lucy Stone
My heart is broken. It really is. All the signs are there. I can't sleep- not even burgers. Every time the phone rings, my pulse leaps... But it's never for me, it's never him.
~ Meg Cabot
So I step into the future, as bravely as I'm able, with my heart longing for a time I'll never see again.
~ Ekaterina Gordeeva
Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust.
~ Ivan Turgenev
Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.
~ Sheena Easton
Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin' in and I'm Tired of this town again
~ Tom Petty
It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.
~ John Phillips
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.
~ Alan Valentine
The more time I spent with him, the more I knew the feelings weren't going away.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.
~ Daniel Craig
Saying she should be the one I see every time that I'm here, but when am I really even here?
~ Drake
[Last words:] My Lord, it is time to move on. Well then, may your will be done. O my Lord and my Spouse, the hour that I have longed for has come. It is time to meet one another.
~ Teresa of Avila
God, it was good. Comforting and stimulating at the same time. Absolute world-class pheromones. I wished I could take his jacket home with me. Not him, just the jacket.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
~ Max Beerbohm
When you long for the port, it is time to leave the journey; when you long for the journey, it is time to leave the port!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I haven't been down to Navy Pier in such a long time. I know that's probably the touristy thing to do, but it just reminds me so much of 2000 when I was here shooting ["Hardball"].
~ Michael B. Jordan
Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we'll be with each other all the time, even if we're not with each other at all.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy.
~ Sophie Arnould
My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.
~ Yann Martel
How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away?
~ Eugenie de Guerin
Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.
~ Hanoi Hannah