Longing Quotes

“Sated, sated is the earth. All is eaten, drunk up, drained. What is it I lack, hunger and thirst for?”

“I have no dog, but it must be somewhere there's one belongs to me.”

“I want to see my longing fulfilled, or I want to see it die.”

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”

“Hunger hurts, but starving works.”

“The water is wide, I can't cross o'er. And neither have I wings to fly.”

“It is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return.”

“Even in Kyoto, hearing the cuckoo's cry, I long for Kyoto.”

“The Consul felt a pang. Ah, to have a horse, and gallop away, singing, away to someone you loved perhaps, into the heart of all the simplicity and peace in the world; was not that like the opportunity afforded by drink?”

“My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here.”

“I wish I had a river I could skate away on.”

“The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot.”

“You're someone else's star, shining in the night for someone else's heart.”

“On the street where you live.”

“I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there.”

“I feel so broke up, I wanna go home.”

“Gane were but the winter-cauld, And gane were but the snaw, I could sleep in the wild woods, Where primroses blaw.”

“You are the bird, and I the shabby snare That waits for you in vain.”

“I raise my head and look at the bright moon, I lower my head and think of my old home.”

“Alone from night to night you'll find me, too weak to break the chains that bind me.”