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Quotes About Longing

My life is PG-13 sometimes, and I really want Josh Grogan to propose to me, and he just won't do it.
~ Emma Stone
Ah, who will save me from existing? It's neither death nor life that I want.
~ Fernando Pessoa
There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.
~ Francis Bacon
A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and Im willing to do without until I get it.
~ Mara Brock Akil
I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale
~ January Jones
The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.
~ Robin G. Collingwood
I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it.
~ Marc Ribot
You can never get enough of what you don't want.
~ Wayne Dyer
But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question?
~ Jodi Picoult
I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it.
~ John Wayne
I said, "I just want to know you and then disappear." She said, "Knowing me does not mean dying.
~ Rumi
He lives. I breathe. I want. Him. Always. Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever. -Mac
~ Karen Marie Moning
People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.
~ Claudia Gray
You're the kind of man a man wants when a man wants a man.
~ David Wong
Dreams will be fulfilled if you want them badly enough.
~ Han Seung-yeon
The only life I want is one with you.
~ Kiersten White
Yeah." Rhage sighed. "All I want is one good female. But I guess I'll settle for quantity until I find her. Life just sucks, doesn't it?
~ J.R. Ward
When I see a train, I want to take it in my arms.
~ Raymond Pettibon
You're like my favorite song, Nova. The one that I never want to forget. That I want to play over and over again.
~ Jessica Sorensen
Love is something that never goes out of style. It's something everybody experiences, and if they are not in love, people usually want to feel that.
~ Beyonce Knowles
Personalities don't love. They want something.
~ Byron Katie
But God knows, I don't want anyone but you. I don't even want to want anyone but you.
~ Cassandra Clare
Attention. That's all girls want.
~ Diplo