Quotes About Longing

Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.

I think I'm gonna be sad I think it's today, yeah The girl that's driving me mad Is going away

Your day breaks, your mind aches You find that all the words of kindness linger on When she no longer needs you

I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized what I really wanted was somebody to come after me when I was running away.

I was seeing this girl recently and used to call her up saying I missed her. I can't help it after a few drinks!

You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.

The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.

Missing You' almost didn't get on the No Brakes' album, because the record company said, 'The album's finished. We don't need any more songs.'

Sometimes I long for the parents I didn't have; that's a recurring nightmare.

If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.

I've known Daryl Hannah for 20 years. She's kind of a friend of the family. Anyway, I've been hot for her ever since 'Blade Runner.'

Happiness? No, it's not there for me.

Even losing my mother, I wanted my mother. That's who you want instinctually when you're having a hard time.

When you can't have someone but you're not willing to accept that, you try harder and become more extreme about it. Either you win the person back or you drive him away.

If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him.

I hated Long Island, and I had to get out.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

Dad lived such a hectic, hard life on the road, and I didn't get to spend as much time with him as I would have liked.

I am still head over heels in love with my Kohinoor, Yousuf Sahab, the way I was when I first felt attracted to him as a 12 year-old.

I loved growing up in Shaker Heights, and I really miss it.

I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.