Quotes About Longing

Woe to the man who in the first moments of a love-affair does not believe that it will last forever! Woe to him who even in the arms of some mistress who has just yielded to him maintains an awareness of trouble to come and foresees that he may later tear himself away!

Hunger is the best pickle.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.

But there are many who, though they frequently hear the Gospel, yet feel but little longing after it, because they have not the mind of Christ. He, therefore, that will fully and with true wisdom understand the words of Christ, let him strive to conform his whole life to that mind of Christ.

I felt like I was falling in love but maybe not just with her, with something else, another world, but maybe that's always what falling in love is like.

What matters is hunger. Appetite. In this way I have become what I behold.

Would you think of somebody who you adore, who's no longer there? A beloved grandmother, a lover — somebody in your life who you love with all your heart, but that person is no longer with you. Bring that person into your mind, and at the same time follow the line all the way from B to E, and you'll hear everything that Chopin had to say.

The time between basketball season and football season is my equivalent to being cast into the phantom zone.

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

For a long time, I didn't think I wanted to live in the Ozarks or write about the region. It seemed to be a sure recipe for obscurity, and to be obscure was not my conscious ambition.

I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family.

I'm so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do with our longing for meaning as well.

Abusive relationships go on and on. You're in it for so long that it can almost be impossible to see it for what it is. That just becomes your life. We get used to and adapt.

'Still Writing Songs About You' - that one hits me every time. For some reason, I really feel that song every time we play it. I just love the sound of it, and I feel like everybody probably has that person that they never fully forget or never can get past.

Everyone, whether you are married or have a boyfriend or girlfriend, there's always someone who has a hold of your heart. You learn to let it go, but there's always a place in your heart. For me, it was someone I went to college with and we had an amazing bond, but I left.

I work with gold that holds history, diamonds that see the future, and rubies that long for love.

Once I fall in love, finishing a story leaves a hole in my heart. The characters become your friends.

We all have holes inside. We need love.

I've done a lot of things away from my homeland.

When I was a kid, I was so homesick at all times.

I would have loved to have cracked America. When I tried, I got homesick. Then, when I was in New York, my nanna died, and I just wanted to come home.

When I moved over to the States full time it was a culture shock. I had a great life over there, I really did, but I was always homesick. I always wanted to get home whenever I could.