Quotes About Longing

Every objet in the world promises satisfaction, but it never gives satisfaction -it only promises.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

We tend to always want to obtain something new and something more, and we never really enjoy what we have.

It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.

When you want something that is very dear to you, somewhere along the line, you become the child.

I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will.

I always feel discontent, like there's somewhere else to go, somewhere else to be. I'm a very ambitious person.

I think my all time favourite song would be between 'Slow Dancing in a Burning Room' and 'Dreaming with a Broken Heart' by John Mayer.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

Some of my favorite songs are slow songs, like Guns N' Roses' 'November Rain.'

Instant gratification is not soon enough.

Being away from her is torturous and I'd much prefer to be with her. So I just try to get out of here as soon as I can. I make sure I do my job real well and fast.

If I could have had my baby sooner, I would have, simply to spend more years with him.

When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

I thought of my father and felt a deep sorrow that he should no longer be alive, and that I could not go to him and tell him that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize. I knew that no one would have been happier than he to hear this.

I always think of my father when I sing arias about loss and love and longing. It gave me that definite deep sorrow that one can only get from life experience, you know?

That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can't get no satisfaction.

I was on the road with my buddy Alex - he's my guitar player - and we watched the movie 'Click' by Adam Sandler. And I don't know why, but me and him just got in our feelings. And then we ended up calling our girls, and we were like, 'We're so sorry. We wish you were here!'

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.

Everybody wants to find their soul mate, and I'm no different. That's definitely what I want in the future.

I really want to have a soul mate.

I'm from Raleigh, North Carolina, and I can't lie... I missed the South since I've been gone!

One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. I grew up in eastern South Carolina, so that's as far as you can get from Seattle, unless I lived in Miami.