Quotes About Longing

It's surprising how you can behave like a 16-year-old in your 60s, or a 17-year-old in your 70s. You know, it's exactly the same. You fall in love with somebody, you start worrying why the phone is not ringing and thinking, 'Can I ring him?'

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.

I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover.

Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.

Things have changed for the worse. That's why former eastern bloc countries are electing communists again. We are missing them and longing for the times we cursed before.

I worship talents almost. I sinfully dare mourn that I possess them not.

Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

Wishing of all employments is the worst.

The worst thing about being on the road is all you want to do when you get home is to stay home, but as soon as you get back, all the wife wants to do is go out because she's been stuck home all the time you've been stuck on the road.

I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.

When I go to the U.S., the flights are long, and they do affect the body clock, but they are worth it.

The deepest instinct is to want to do something enduring, something worthwhile, and to be engaged by that, whether one achieves it or not.

I always longed to have someone who would just be there for me. Of course I have Tom. I'm extremely happy that we're brothers. I wouldn't be able to work as a solo artist.

I would fly to Los Angeles just for a cheeseburger with pickles and extra tomatoes from In-N-Out.

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.

Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.

I wish I could play the whole game and come back tomorrow.

I love L.A. I'd move there tomorrow if I could.

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

My kids are everything to me and I never got to see 'em - I missed tons of moments and years.

Instant gratification takes too long.

One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.