Quotes About Longing

I had always wanted a family and I have always wanted something really stable and beautiful to come home to.

I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.

There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

Desire is the essence of a man.

Some men hunger so much for love that they lose everything that is loveable about them.

A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.

That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.

Desire is the very essence of man

Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?

Am I a man? To want you so badly that nothing else matters? To see you, and know I would sacrifice honor or family or life itself to lie wi' you, even though ye'd left me?

A man's ideal woman is the one he couldn't get.

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly I got to love one man till I die Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.

Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, ...especially the children of men.

The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.

The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.

Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

Dead men would start and move toward me to learn of love.

Coonskin caps, Yankee bats, the Hound Dog man's big start. The A-bomb fears, Annette had ears, I lusted in my heart.

Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?

I never loved a man as far as I could pitch my shoe.

I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man.