Quotes About Longing

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return.

My sense of loneliness was not particularly great until I reached sixty. From that time on, I would have given an ex-king's ransom if I had been able, in my youth to seduce a lady into thinking of me as a handyman and provider around the house.

I really miss my youth. I'm not being ungrateful, but there was an Atif who used to roam the streets, who didn't care whether his photograph was taken or not, who used to hang out without people staring at him. I miss that carefree life and would give anything for it, even if it only lasts a few moments.

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.

Obviously I've had crushes, and I've tried to make things work with people, but it doesn't when you're away so much. I like to think, 'Don't go looking for it; it'll happen when it wants to happen.'

Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away.

L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.

Miracles are supposed to point us to Him, but we can get to God without miracles. It is God himself we should long for rather than for the miracles that point to him. To get caught up in wanting miracles is a bit like thinking the destination of a road trip is the highway you're supposed to take.

I've been on loads of promotional trips in so many other countries, and most of the time, you just want to go home.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

I used to see Triumph TR7s and E-Type Jags, and I used to think, 'One day, I'm gonna have one of those.' I remember seeing an E-Type and walking round it 40 or 50 times.

It blows me away the number of truck drivers or macho guys that will call, and then I start peeling back the layers, and I find out they've been listening to me for 10 or 15 years, and they know every lyric to every sappy song.

It's true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.

Who wants to live forever?

It happens just because we need to want and to be wanted too, when love is here or gone to lie down in the darkness and listen to the warm.

I suffer every moment of every day that I am not with my son. All I want is to be reunited with my son.

Mama - Mama - I want so many things... I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.

Nothing is ever enough when what you are looking for isn't what you really want.

I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.

The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.