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Quotes About Longing

All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.
~ Wilfred Owen
I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?
~ Jeanette Winterson
They say I'm greedy, but I still want more, cause my eyes want to journey.
~ Snoop Dogg
We don't need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.
~ Hafez
If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.
~ Kathy Acker
When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
~ Willa Cather
She is Cuba. If you want to love her, you have to be with her, but you can't be with her in her current state. It's the point of view of all exiles - you have to leave the thing you cherish most.
~ Andy Garcia
Yes, Roza. I did want you. I still do. I wish... we could be together. -Dimitri to Rose on their relationship
~ Richelle Mead
There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to bitterly want what they can't have and ungratefully not want what is readily available to them.
~ Robert Ringer
We all dream about love, want to be in love, and have been hurt by love.
~ Taylor Swift
I'm just dying to return to the Octagon and do the thing I most love in my life. That's what I want right now.
~ Anderson Silva
Discipline is remembering what you want most, not what you want now.
~ Billy Blanks
It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can't have.
~ Eddie Redmayne
When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.
~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt
There are very few things in my life that I can't have if I want them. So when I see something that I can't have, immediately I'm obsessed by it.
~ George Michael
It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
~ Sylvia Plath
He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.
~ Abbi Glines
As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.
~ Henry Rollins
I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough.' 'But you built me dreams instead.
~ Erin Morgenstern
You want what you want, whether or not you think you can have it.
~ Robert Fritz
my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.
~ Pablo Neruda
Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.
~ Colin Wilson