Quotes About Longing

What we want is never simple.

She deceiving, I believing; What need lovers wish for more?

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union.

The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

They talk of my drinking but never my thirst.

It's a long time between drinks.

From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.

There is only one big thing-desire. And before it, when it is big, all is little.

We fear the thing we want the most.

O friends, I pray tonight, Keep not your kisses for my dead cold brow. The way is lonely; let me feel them now. Think gently of me; I am travel-worn, My faltering feet are pierced with many a thorn. Forgive! O hearts estranged, forgive, I plead! When ceaseless bliss is mine I shall not need The tenderness for which I long tonight.

Greediness of getting more, deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.

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

[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.

He who is greedy is always in want.

The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.

A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all pains, the greatest pain it is to love, but love in vain.

People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

Sometimes I miss hamburgers, I should say that. I miss the tuna pizzas at Mercer Kitchen.

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart.

Music is nostalgia. We often connect to a song, to its lyrics, its tunes so much that it feels like we have known those songs all along.

Because the last time I saw my family was 2015. Sometimes I even forget what they look like, you know? It's so hard to communicate with them. Because Turkish police raided my house. They took electronics away, computers away. They wanted to see if I'm still in contact with my family or not. Any single text, they will all be in jail.