Quotes About Longing

When you're there, I sleep lengthwise. And when you're gone, I sleep diagonal in my bed.

She loves him so but he didn't stay. The wind can't blow this storm away.

By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.

Life is the fruit she longs to hand you, Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

You get a dog on your mind, it seems to fill up the whole space. Everything you do reminds you of that dog. When

American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.

a man sitting still is alone, often, with the memory of all he doesn't have. And what he does have can look very much like nothing.

The Sufis, like all mystics, are singers of a homesickness that is a kind of hope; all of us are exiles in the world, they tell us, longing to get back to the place that is our rightful home.

For to a boy it can seem that he shall never have what he alone has never had.

The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.

Ma io volevo baci larghi come oceani in cui perdermi e affogare, volevo baci grandi e baci lenti come un respiro cosmico, volevo bagni di baci in cui rilassarmi e finalmente imparare i suoi movimenti d'amore.

Io ho sempre voluto tutto Thomas. E mi sono sempre dovuto accontentare di qualcosa.

Ils etaient divorces, mais ne le savaient pas. Tant de gens croient faire l'amour quand if ne font que de la presence. Quand un amour de jeunesse colle si durablement a la peau, on risque de s'ecorcher a trop voulouir s'en defaire. Quand un francais se plaint, c'est que la vie reprend.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

L'amour ne me disait plus rien du tout, mais rien du tout. L'amour pas plus que le vin, seul le tabac demeurait la saveur nécessaire de la vie ; Dieu merci, j'en étais bien pourvu.

J'aurais tant voulu être aimé qu'il me semble que j'aime.

There are two things that give me perfect happiness - doing the perfect shot and travelling. I get stressed, really stressed by the fact that there is just so much to see and I am not going to live long enough to visit all the places I want to.

But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit, motherhood. Especially in the early years. Now she's eight, and I'm still not going to go anywhere.

I'd like to visit my friend and his family who live in Australia. That trip is long overdue.

There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962.

Separation is the worst. There's no good way to deal with it, other than to get on the phone and do Skype and try to visit.

My childhood best friend moved to Kenya when we were still young, and since I missed her so much, I always hoped to visit Kenya.

Ever since I visited Paris when I was younger, the sappy side of me really wanted to write a song about it someday.

An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.