Quotes About Longing

I think when I'm in love, I really am very good with calling, little faxes, and visiting and I really put a lot of effort into it. I'm really not the one that's not available because of work and I'm very sad when I actually leave.

I remember seeing my father only twice as a child for brief visits. As I grew up, I invented a father who was larger than life - stronger, smarter, more handsome, and even holier than other men.

And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee.

I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to do by a British accent. That's why so many infomercials have British people.

When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left.

We had applied for adoption three years ago, but it was during the lockdown that I felt the void even more.

Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.'

I wish it were September 1948 and I wish I were 21 again.

I'd like to settle down eventually, but acting is emotionally draining.

I guess that feeling of wanting to settle down and have children will follow when you find the right one.

To me, TV relationships work at their best when there is a deep longing and feelings and interest and sexual attraction that is unrequitable.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that.

When I spend money on myself, it's almost always on shoes and clothes. I'm addicted to shoes. I always have been, since I was a kid. When I was young, I could never get the shoes I really wanted.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

I love babies; there was a need in me for one more.

I want babies.

I've always wanted a baby.

I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby.

From 16 years old, I wanted to have a baby, that's all I wanted.

What I want back is what I was.

I think it's nice to have children. I didn't have many, and while I don't sit around regretting it, I maybe would have liked a couple more. But it wasn't meant to be, and I didn't want it badly enough.

I would see people on TV, or I'd see bands I really liked, and I thought, 'I want that.'

It's hard to have money in the bank and want something and then not get it.

I have barely seen my son since he came into the world. Even though I hear his voice on the phone almost every day, it is very tough to not be present while he is growing up.