Quotes About Longing

Whatever man seeks lies in his heart of love.

It's amazing how when we were young we wanted to know what it felt like to be older and when we are older we want the feeling of being younger again.

To be a climber one has to accept that gratification is rarely immediate.

I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for it, but it was never meant to be ours.

Deep down inside we always seek for our departed loved ones

You know you're in lust when you're quick to fall into a reverie because dreams seem better than reality.

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.

There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.

Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born

Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.

I think that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like sport. Yes, they would love to find a lasting relationship, but it's not likely to happen the way they are going about it.

At any given time, all of us have an empty spot: one that is calling for companionship, for example, or for justice, love, romance, or a belly laugh. When I sit down to write, I look to see what hole needs filling at that particular moment.

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

As the hart desires the spring of living water, so my soul desires to leave the prison of this dark body and see You in truth.

Hunger's a great spur.

St. Louis still is going to be a special place for me, whether I'm playing 3,000 miles away or 5,000 miles away.

It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.