Quotes About Longing

I wanted her for what she was, but when I got her I wanted her to change.

She...wanted no one—apart from men in nineteenth-century novels, which put a whole new spin on the idea of 'unattainable.

The more Viola forgot her mother, the more she missed her.

Really she was just like everyone else, she wanted to love someone. Even better if they loved you in return. She was considering getting a cat. She didn't really like cats though. That might be a bit of a problem. Quite liked dogs.

Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.

Sometimes when a man gets older he has a revelation and wants awfully bad to get back to the place where he left his life, but he can't get to that place- not often.

To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.

The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.

Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Only I sigh for thy repose.

I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.

I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.

There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.

it just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like that.

I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.

As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.

Ah woe is me, through all my daysWisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men's praise;But Love, ah! Love I have it not.

There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.

I just... want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.

She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else.