Quotes About Longing

We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.

Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

While a person does not give up on sex, sex does not give up on the person.

The problem is not that you cannot have what you think you want. The problem is that when you get what you think you want, it won't satisfy.

We grow weary of those things (and perhaps soonest) which we most desire.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or, if there be, they will not let you have it.

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.

What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.

For thy sake, tobacco, I Would do anything but die.

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?

One must desire something to be alive: perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning.

Riches enlarge, rather than satisfy appetites.

I wish I knew the good of wishing.

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more - the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

They were all there.And all of them,these days,were as if drunk with bitterness,from desire for vengeance and longed to punish and to kill whomsoever they could,since they could not punish or kill those whom they wished.

Zašto je put do žene tako vijugav i tajan i zašto on sa svojom slavom i snagom ne može da ga pre?e, a prelaze ga svi gori od njega? Svi, samo, on u silnoj i smiješnoj starosti, cijeli svoj vijek pruža ruke kao u snu. Što žene traže?