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Quotes About Longing

And off we went to the sad and disinclined concert for which I had no stomach whatever and all the time I was thinking of Dean and how he got back on the train and rode over three thousand miles over that awful land and never knew why he had come anyway, except to see me.
~ Jack Kerouac
La seule chose après laquelle nous languissons durant notre existence, qui nous fait soupirer et gémir et souffrir toutes sortes de doucereuses nausées, c'est le souvenir de quelque félicité perdue que l'on a sans doute éprouvée dans le sein maternel et qui ne saurait se reproduire (mais nous nous refusons à l'admettre) que dans la mort. Mais qui souhaite mourir ?
~ Jack Kerouac
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~ Jack Kerouac
The worst is missing them, you know? And knowing they won't be back again. Just knowing that. Sometimes you forget and it's as though they're on vacation or something and you think, gee, I wish they'd call. You miss them. You forget they're really gone. You forget the past six months even happened. Isn't that weird? Isn't that crazy? Then you catch yourself . . . and it's real again.
~ Jack Ketchum
more you drink more you want
~ Jack London
I wandered all these years among A world of women, seeking you.
~ Jack London
For many years, I didn't feel I'd find anything that I'd like as much as 'Twin Peaks.'
~ Sherilyn Fenn
Eating cold tuna fish out of a tin on a porch while two people are in love across a lake - I think that's desperately lonely.
~ Rupert Friend
'Illusion' is a story of God's love and our hunger to find him when we're separated from him. If I can paint a picture of two people still in love after 40 years, that's a pretty good message.
~ Frank Peretti
We live on a two week cycle in our house so if I go away for two weeks, it's too long. And if I'm home for two weeks, it's too long.
~ John Bishop
As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.
~ Jonathan Winters
I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.
~ Samantha Harvey
I feel dull when I am unable to see my mother for long. So, when I am in Hyderabad, I spend time with her.
~ Prabhas
I remember, as a child, wanting all the time to buy my parents presents. I stood around forlornly in fancy shops, unable to afford a single thing.
~ Elizabeth Berg
I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.
~ Amanda Lindhout
Love, why have you sought the horde of spearsmen, why the tent Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?
~ Hilda Doolittle
That's the worst of a war--you have to go on hearing about it so long.
~ Susan Glaspell
Saigon in utter darkness this last night of the war. A gestating monster. Her letter to Linh had been simple: I love you more than life, but I had to see the end.
~ Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters
What did I want? I wanted the war to be over so I could ask her out.
~ Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
Inman's only thought looking on the enemy was, "Go home.
~ Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
This war is going to be full of women who fall in love with men they'll never see again. All we do is say goodbye over and over.
~ Soraya Lane, Wives Of War
I thought I lost you""You will never lose me." Paul kissed the top of her head. "And even if I have to leave, you must know that I will come back to you again. If you'll wait for me?
~ Caroline Leech, Wait for Me
My body felt alive. I need more. "Valkyrie, " Fen growled, eyes locked on my mouth. "Put your lips back on mine, and I will give you what you crave.
~ Amanda Carlson, Struck
She loves him sobut he didn't stay.The wind can't blowthis storm away.
~ Phoebe Stone, Romeo Blue