Quotes About Longing

trying to describe how I felt watching her dance around and sing would be like trying to build a skyscraper with my bare hands. It made me want to marry her. Made me want to buy her a magic airplane and fly her away to a place where nothing bad could ever happen. Made me want to pour rubber cement all over my chest and then lay down on top of her so that we'd be stuck together, and so it would hurt like hell if we ever tried to tear ourselves apart.

A search. We're all searching for something to fill up what I like to call that big, God-shaped hole in our souls. Some people use alcohol, or sex, or their children, or food, or money, or music, or heroin. A lot of people even use the concept of God itself. I could go on and on. I used to know a girl who used shoes. She had over two hundred pairs. But it's all the same thing, really. People, for some stupid reason, think they can escape their sorrows.

And sure, I could've stayed where I was, continued working my nowhere job, living in my nowhere apartment, eventually marry some nowhere man, have a few kids and anesthetize myself with provincial monotony like most of my peers had done, and before I knew it I'd be six feet under. I wanted more.

You weren't to know how your touch with the teaspoon stirred me…

It was an odd feeling, longing to see someone and dreading it at the same time.

We may not long for bread, but we long for meaning, intimacy, fulfillment, community, purpose, and joy.

No-one's ever satisfied.

I do want to go home. That's my dream. North Korea is still my home.

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

Nostalgia is an amazing thing.

In some ways, I feel like I've always dabbled in nostalgia. It's just what I do; it comes naturally.

I think whatever generation you're in has a nostalgia for the generations past and the generations you weren't in.

Nostalgia is not a place to live.

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

Nostalgia can be extremely powerful in the right hands: think of the intense longing in the films Andrei Tarkovsky made after he left the U.S.S.R. They wring your soul.

I always find that nostalgia is sort of like memory without the pain. And that's why it feels so good to kind of bask in that, and I think it can be deceptively comforting.

Nostalgia is very powerful.

There's so much nostalgia for music from the past.

I love nostalgia.

Nostalgia has always been big. I don't think it ever goes away - people enjoy it.

I get very sentimental, I get very nostalgic, and when I live in a place, I instantly put down way too many roots.

I'm a deeply romantic person, nostalgic to a fault.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

I'm a nostalgic guy.