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Quotes About Longing

Once upon a time, they thought I was a sweet, wide-eyed boy that was just trying to figure out how to kiss the girl. Lots of comic relief and adolescent yearnings.
~ Ben Mendelsohn
I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts.
~ Tom Hooper
I know of nothing more moving, indeed semi-tragic, than the yearning helplessness in the face of a dog, who understands what is said to him, and can not answer!
~ Bayard Taylor
I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.
~ Richard Burton
Seven years after my mother's passing, I still reach for the phone for a split second to call her. We spoke every day.
~ Tyler Perry
For whatever reason, I've always gravitated towards music that feels nostalgic or longing or beautifully tragic.
~ Lauv
I want tragic and poetic forever! That's how I want to live every day.
~ Rachel Keller
I miss training for football and I miss playing matches.
~ Ellyse Perry
I wanted to transmit what it feels like to be on the so-called IVF emotional rollercoaster, and I guess I wanted to offer a shared aloneness to anyone who's desperately longed for a child.
~ Julia Leigh
I've always thought that love thrives on a certain kind of distance, that it requires an awed separateness to continue. Without that necessary remove, the physical minutiae of the other person grows ugly in its magnification.
~ Siri Hustvedt
When she walks away for even a short time, I can't wait for her return. If she were never to return, nothing else would matter.
~ Sister Souljah
Neke veze je naprosto teško prekinuti, sve se u tebi odupire, a svaki novi susret podupire suludu nadu da ?e se nešto dogoditi i da ?ete ponovo biti zajedno, kao nekada.
~ Slavenka Drakuli?
What is most important is the deeply felt conviction that freedom is like oxygen, and I hope The Long Walk is a reminder that when lost, freedom is difficult to regain.
~ Slavomir Rawicz
ObÅ'Ä™d i szaÅ', rozczarowanie i ?al, SiÄ…d? tu, a opowiem tobie o mÄ™ce tÄ™sknoty I zdwojonym bólu.
~ Snorri Sturluson
Somehow everything I own smells of you, and for the tiniest moment it's all not true
~ Snow Patrol
I'm miles from where you are. I lay down on the cold ground, and I pray that something picks me up, and sets me down in your warm arms.
~ Snow Patrol
I'm miles from where you are I lay down on the cold ground And I, I pray that something picks me up And sets me down in your warm arms.
~ Snow Patrol
I want so much to open your eyes, cause I need you to look into mine
~ Snow Patrol
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
~ Socrates
He who is not content with what he has will not be content with what he would like to have.
~ Socrates
Pero por desgracia, no puedes recordar el camino para regresar a casa. Miras hacia arriba al cielo de la noche, esperando que el parpadeo de tus tenues memorias de tanto tiempo atrás, tomen una chispa y se enciendan de nuevo.
~ Solara
Love is where you feel broken when you are apart from the one loved and that they feel the same too.
~ Solen Tuisamatatele
The sun shone out warmly; the birds were singing in the trees. The happy birds - I envied them. I wished for wings like them, that I might cleave the air to where my birdlings waited vainly for their father's coming, in the cooler region of the North.
~ Solomon Northup
i gather up each sound you left behind and stretch them on our bed. each nite i breathe you and become high.
~ Sonia Sanchez