Unfulfilled Longing Quotes

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.

Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

Time cast a spell on you but you won't forget me, I know I could have loved you, but you would not let me. I'll follow you down 'til the sound of my voice will haunt you, you'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you

Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasn’t happened this morning, either.

The story of a passionate woman in a stale marriage is as old as Helen of Troy.

Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

I think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren.

Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.

It will hurt. Because deep down, I'll know there was someone.. someone I was supposed to have met. Only I'll never meet him. I'll go through my whole life waiting for him to come along, only he never will. What kind of life is that?

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

Hell is not fire and brimstone, not a place where you are punished for lying or cheating or stealing. Hell is wanting to be something and somewhere different from where you are.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

I'm disappointed. I don't care about Will Smith, I don't want to.

I'm a fan of leaving people hungry; I don't like leaving people satisfied.

I have nobody. I have surrounded myself with people who are fake just because I need to talk to somebody.

It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

I believe there is something on this earth that you desire more than anything, and it isn't me.

Shameless: Punish me for my desire if you will. It burns still.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

That's what I realized: if I did get her back somehow, she wouldn't fill the hole that losing her created.

Because I’ve lost my children, too, and I know the ache that lives inside the heart that no amount of solace or alcohol will squelch. I know what it’s like to have the powers of a god and to not be able to hold the one thing that means the most to me. And if you think for one minute that I would ever serve that to another being, even Artemis, who I’d like to torture for eternity, then go ahead and call down your army on me. I would deserve whatever death they give. (Sin)

Christopher Nolan's 'The Prestige' is an enthralling study of doubles, doubling and duplicity. Its twinned themes are obsession and the Secret: the Secret as objet-a, that which inspires, but which can never satisfy, obsession.