Quotes About Longing

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.

We fear the things we want the most.

Time passes by, memory staysTorturing silently, rest of our days... Sigh!

I see your face, your smile and poetry comes flooding out of a heart that can't love you anymore...

Going back to something is harder than you think."I don't suppose I could have broken my mother's heart any more if I tried.

You're not good for me when you're not mine.

If you've lost your faith in love and music, Oh the end won't be long...

At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.

And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!

Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.

When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.

Stupid cupid keeps on calling me, but I see nothing in his eyes. I miss my babe

You'll shoot the moon... put out the sun... when you love someone.

Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music.

For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

You," I said, "are sweet music in a distant room.

The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.

Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.

Skylark Have you anything to say to me? Won't you tell me where my love can be?

I don't have music, Christ I wish I had music but all I have is words.

Sweetest melodies.Are those that are by distance made more sweet.

I cried for madder music and for stronger wine.

The music is the void. And you're the reason why.