Quotes About Longing

There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

I wish I could have known you.

The sky is more beautiful than earth, and I want the sky, not earth.

Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it.

I'd sleep under a Vermeer.

I didn't long to be a designer. I always liked fashion, but it was always a bit sleeping in me.

I knew what I wanted to wear and I couldn't find it: I wanted that delicate jewelry that you never took off, that you showered in, that you slept in.

My goal is always to leave you slightly wanting more.

My joints hurt. I'm slower. But I remember what it was like to run and play with the boys. I want to be one of the boys.

I love my country, and it hurts not to be able to see my country, as I did for so many years. I hope that I will one day be able to live in a peaceful Colombia.

I spend so much time hoping things for myself.

When you're from another country, you want to spend time with your family. All your family can't come here. All your friends can't come here. You spend so much time here, you want to go there, too.

as much about the human desires that connect us to these plants as it is about the plants themselves.

Could it be that sweetness is the prototype of all desire?

If I have you for a day, I'll want you for a week. If I have you for a week, I'll want you for another week.

What you don't wish for will always be beyond your reach.

Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out...

El amor no es más que el deseo furioso de algo que huye de nosotros...

Men jeg innser klart at dette gode er svært vanskelig å gjenvinne; svakhet og lang erfaring har gitt oss en mer kresen og nøyeregnende smak. Vi forlanger mer samtidig som vi har mindre å tilby; vi vil ha flere valgmuligheter, når vi selv minst fortjener å bli valgt. Fordi vi vet at i er slik, blir vi mindre dristige og mer mistroiske, og i betraktning av vår egen og deres tilstand, er det ikke noe som kan forsikre oss om at vi er elsket.

Ä°nsanlar?n ÅŸu anda ellerinde olana, ilerde ellerine geçeceklere göre daha az ilgi gösterdiÄŸi zamanlard? - sahip olduklarin?, modas? geçmiÅŸ ve istenmeyen k?lacak ÅŸeylerin özlemini çektikleri zamanlard?.

I tore open a bag of truffle chips---really truffle-flavored potato chips---that cost $3.95: a novelty I'd never buy on my own. I shook them onto a small plate and the scent of truffles, at once earthy and faintly metallic, filled the air. That scent always triggers a free-floating longing in me, the ache of a bittersweet memory, but with no specific memory attached. (Did such poignancy make the chips worth twice as much as the Lay's?)

I am pinned to my seat with pity and horror and a weird, twisted affection laced with longing and traces of lust.

In a second or two he would get up and join her in the shower he could hear running--consolidate his place with some very passionate seed-sowing and at the same time he would make Nell fall in love with him again.

Who wouldn't put an entire world on the line for the off chance of getting their hands on a creature that doesn't sleep and won't leave them alone?