Quotes About Longing

It's easier to look sexy when you're thinking of one man in particular.

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.

My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.

O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one." (Between the Dusk of a Summer Night, 13-16)

She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.

You've always had me ... and my heart. My soul. Everything. I wish it hadn't taken this long for me to man up.

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

"Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost." "And old men?" "Of what they have not found."

Man, I tell you, this is worth waiting 16 years for!

Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.

it would make things much simpler for a man like him if he knew she were unavailable.

Ivy was the only person awake, her face lit up by her screen. And for the first time in a long time, it looked the way it had used to when she'd been on the track of some fascinating science problem: alive, intent, fiercely joyful.

Why any one place should forever hold enchantment for the reason you are born there is a mystery. But like cats and birds we are pussy-footed and pigeon-toed and our footsteps lead toward home.… The Eskimo longs for his northern bleakness and his ice hut, the cowboy dreams of the wide open towns and prairies of the west, the old salt is looking out to sea Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and down in the hold of many ships are dead Chinamen's bones going home to China.

It is a law of nature that a dream carried for too long inside you must, eventually, begin to rot.

He wanted to know when he was going to kiss the same person goodnight when the lights went out and then hello again the next morning when the sun came up. He wanted to know how he was ever going to make that happen.