Thomas Campion Quotes

I really desire a partner.

A lot of people in the middle of their lives have a secret yearning for more romance.

What are these voices outside love's open door, make us throw off our contentment, and beg for something more?

The thing he wished for most was a thing he had never wished for at all, not until he had discovered her. And it came true that night, and many nights after. A brief and shining span of happiness, it was the pivot point around which his whole life spun.

When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.

When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time to become so involved.

I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.

Since I was 15 years old, all I wanted was to find the guy I was going to marry.

I've never looked for women. When I was a teenager, perhaps.

What love is depends on where you are in relation to it. Secure in it, it can feel as mundane and necessary as air - you exist within it, almost unnoticing. Deprived of it, it can feel like an obsession; all consuming - a physical pain.

When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

I am definitely one of those girls who want to get married. I have two sisters and they are both married with kids, and I'm like, 'Oh, I want that.'

I don't play lovers. I wish I did. At least once I'd like to have a crack at one of those guys. A heartbreaker. Some people are born to it. I'm not.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Everybody wants to find their soul mate, and I'm no different. That's definitely what I want in the future.

I think people desperately want to feel love.

I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.

Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it.

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

I always wanted to be loved.

I write about love, but it's me wanting to be in love. I've never been in love. I love my mom, my dad. I want to be in love. I think I have to allow myself to get there. I'm just so in love with music. It's weird. I'm at a crossroads because I want to be in love.

I never knew anybody who didn't want to have a great love in their lives and to make a family.

Charlotte Bronte was writing about sex. I supposed Jane Austen was, too. Where do you get a hero like Darcy unless you are writing about sex?

The thing that makes love stories work, in my opinion, in movies and novels and country & western songs, is the feeling of longing.