Personal Longing Quotes

I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam.

In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.

In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.

When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.

I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own.

I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'

If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something.

It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been an athlete than an actor. This is like some second place consolation prize.

Maybe true love isn't out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone.

I should like to be a horse.

I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South.

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

Being partly Italian or, rather, having an Italian last name, I've always dreamed of really becoming partly Italian, of eating piles of mouthwatering fettuccine in the piazza, speaking a language that demands music over mumble, and yes, if I'm honest, perhaps dressing a little better.

For some things there are no wrong seasons. Which is what I dream of for me.

I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado.

If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.

This is the band I always wanted to be in.

All she wanted was sax.

In the case of 'News Radio,' I loved that show. I loved the actors and the producers, but I was longing very much for something more to sink my teeth into me. I think it was an incredibly smart show, but I found myself on the peripheral of a lot of it.

Wishes cannot be summoned up or kept away at will. They come from deeper within us than good or bad intentions. And they spring up unannounced.

Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

My first baseball game was a Cubs game at Wrigley Field... I really wanted to be a boy.

The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang.

I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there.

My entire life, I just wanted a pony, and I couldn't care less about a pair of shoes.