Quotes About Longing

TWENTY-TWO HOURS AND FORTY-NINE MINUTES LATER (NOT THAT I WAS COUNTING OR ANYTHING) To:

This is what freedom feels like, he thinks. This is what I missed the most. He

But I knew that I wouldn't learn the end of our story tonight—and I hoped I wouldn't, not for a very long time.

when I realized she hadn't really left for good. She'd just gone on ahead a little.

The guy who'd kissed me last week—that guy was gone. Sure, I'd rejected him, and sure, I didn't own him. But even so, it hurt. I missed the Richie who'd mooned over me.

great old time talking about cheeseburgers while I sat there thinking about how miserable my life was about to get. What did all this mean, exactly?

I'll bet you think my favorite color is red, don't you? Well, close. It's purple. Purple is such a twisted, complex color--it conveys the passion of red, the sadness of blue, the depravity of black. Purple is neither happy nor sad. It is pain and despair but longing, too--fiery desire, beaten and bruised but struggling onward, determined to overcome, to move forward rather than retreat.

How could I desire him like this when I was so full of sorrow? And would he desire me enough to help take me away from here, even for a few stolen moments?

She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not reach him, and it made her throat ache with unhappiness to meet that look of his that rested on her face without seeing it.

Nostalgia for dead tyrants and the longing for heroes are unhealthy, and they can result in the deification of a Saddam as easily as a Havel or Mandela.

I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.

That concept is quite universal, looking for love.

'Need You Now' is a universal subject matter. It's something that not just country fans, not just pop fans - everybody's been there. And the production was a little left of center.

'Old Fashioned' can expect strong interest because it taps into a universal human longing.

I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?' I would say, 'Astrophysicist.' And then they'd walk away real quickly.

Love lasts a long time but burning desire lasts two to three weeks.

I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.

Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.

What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The lineaments of gratified desire.

"What do women want?" "They eat green salad and drink human blood."

Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear; Her glorious fancies come from far, Beneath the silver evening star, And yet her heart is ever near.

It is not a woman I want - it is all women.

A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.