Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

- Greta Garbo

I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.

- Juliana Hatfield

All I can say is sometimes home gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can't leave you, and there's always that longing.

- James Gray

The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.

- John le Carre

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

- John C. Maxwell

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

- Ismail Merchant

There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.

- Ingmar Bergman

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

- Henry Ward Beecher

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

- Gail Godwin

My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.

- Gina Barreca

I don't have a vast longing for the stage.

- Anthony Hopkins

Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.

- Eduard Shevardnadze

When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't.

- Danica Patrick

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

- Bernadine Dohrn

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.

- Ben Kingsley

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

- Bodhidharma

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

- Anna Sui

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

- Anselm Kiefer

I have this insane and unabated longing for San Francisco. I come up there every chance that I get.

- Aisha Tyler

Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again?

- Arundhati Roy