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Quotes About Longing

But what I miss the most is knowing just exactly where it hurts, knowing just exactly what is wrong and what I want.
~ Chris Pureka
As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.
~ David Mamet
Pain is all I know." He murmured. "Peace is all I want
~ Dean Koontz
Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can't smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint.
~ Dennis Lehane
The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.
~ Eugene V. Debs
The world is full of places to which I want to return
~ Ford Madox Ford
I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated.
~ Gary Shteyngart
Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.
~ Geri Halliwell
Her memory's your love. You want no other.
~ Henry James
I have no clue why, but maybe sometimes when there's someone you don't hear from, it's the person you want to hear from the most.
~ Janet Jackson
What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.
~ Joan D. Vinge
There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.
~ Jodi Picoult
I believed that doing what the other person wanted was love. I did that, and for more than a thousand years I have regretted it. I don't want to repeat the same mistake.
~ Kim Dong-joo
Just for once, I want someone to want me more than anybody else. To put me first.
~ Mariah Fredericks
For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don't want to have to hang about for the blast, which idles along at the speed of sound.
~ Martin Amis
There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want.
~ Noel Coward
He always kept me just on the edge of crazy. Feeling like I wanted him too much, which just made me want him more." "That sounds excruciating.
~ Rainbow Rowell
Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.
~ Robert Breault
Pain is the difference between what is and what I want it to be.
~ Spencer Johnson
We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.
~ Stephen King
I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.
~ Taylor Swift
Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
~ Veronica Roth
I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted. That's what I wanted myself to be.
~ Markus Zusak, Getting the Girl
And because I'm so out of control, I can't help myself. I'm not even mine anymore, I'm yours, and what if you decide that you don't want me? How could you want me like I want you?
~ Rainbow Rowell