Quotes About Longing

Dear God. She ached, wanting something that she knew was a sin. Wanting a man who was sin itself.

But like the legless man, I'm unaccountably fascinated by those who can dance.

Boys mystified me, although I dreamed vaguely of men.

It's better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can't be yours, then never to love at all.

I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book.

A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.

The grave is sooner cloy'd than men's desire.

At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.

When a man leaves home, he leaves behind some scrap of his heart. . . . It's the same with a place a man is going to. Only then he sends a scrap of his heart ahead.

Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow.

She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.

Cultivate night-blooming jasmine near your bedroom window, and dream of men you've always longed for.

The audience falls in love with a leading man because he'll never belong to any of them.

But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.

Youth, ah, Youth! all men's desire and sorrow.

The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

She even touches Jimmy's face on the photos, and I see what it is to love someone like Milla loved that man. Her fingertips are made of love.

Here we are, a man and a woman, both wanting the same things, and yet, you aren't attracted to me.

But I guess you would look beatific, too, if the man you had been in love with since the fifth grade had told you that he was in love with you, too.

To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man.

She was sleeping in a quiet bedroom beside her brother, separated only by glass and sand from the young man she loved, a young man who loved her back