Quotes About Longing

As an actor, those are the roles that you long for. You always want something that's going to kick your last role out of the water and put you off on a new path.

Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

People can text with two hands and are so fast and I am not... I just have that one person I want to talk to.

I'm not sure what it is that I want, but I feel it deep in the pit of my stomach. It's there sitting dormant. I'll know it when I see it.

Fine. If I can't have you, then you do the taking. Have all of me, part of me, a small piece, whatever you want. Just please, have something.

more you drink more you want

That's exactly it—I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.

I think when you really adore something and you've grown up with it you almost don't want to be part of it. I want to enjoy it as a fan and don't want to ruin the magic.

It was impossible not to admire him, not to want to do something to contain that kind of beauty- drink him, ingest him, sneak into his shirt and hide for the rest of one's natural life.

I find the film world very romantic. I want to try to be in more movies. When you're on a TV show and you do the same thing for years and years, it can get a little bit boring.

She would buy magic every day of the week. Love me, that face said. I'm so lonely, so desperate. I'll give you whatever you want.

The ability to last more than six minutes - isn't that what all men want?

Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.

Okay, I'm going to be completely honest here." I take a deep breath, because what I'm about to say is very real and more honest than I've ever been. "I don't want to be awayfrom you for that long.

The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it.

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.

I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.

There's often a natural inclination to want more.

Because nine years ago, I walked up to the most beautiful girl in the bar, and tonight she's still the only person I want to talk to.

You're here, and the only dance I want is this one.

I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.

Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it.

She's my baby girl, Quinn. I want love for her. Real love. The kind that makes a man crazy inside. -Gibraltar to Quinn