Pining Quotes

• Any role that's proactive is a great role, and action roles are by their very nature proactive. You get to do stuff. I hate sitting in a corner - I'd much prefer an action role in a popcorn movie rather than pining in a corner not doing anything.

  Helen Mirren

  Hate, Popcorn, Roles

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• The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in -telephonic, technological and relational -to alter even the slightest bit of behavior in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Thinking, Simplicity, Effort

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• But love brings much happiness - much more so than pining brings pain.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Happiness, Pain

  "The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The early years, 1879-1902".

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• We may live without friends; we may live without books
  But civilized men cannot live without cooks.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Food, Book, Men

  'Lucile' (1860) pt. 1, canto 2, sect. 24

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• The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Pay, Life Is, Complexity

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool memories”, Verso

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• In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied.

  Thomas Frank

  Hipster, Teenager, Eye

  John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.113, MIT Press

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• I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.

  Randal Kleiser

  Girlfriend, Kids, Swings

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• The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook.

  Sean Astin

  Phones, Hook, Filmmaker

  "An Interview with Sean Astin". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. December 18, 2002.

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• Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.

  Agnes de Mille

  America, People, Agonizing

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• If I missed my moment, I missed my moment. I mean, I wasn't pining to be president of the United States.

  Chris Christie

  Mean, President, United States

  "Chris Christie: I May Have 'Missed My Moment' To Be President" by Brett LoGiurato, www.businessinsider.com. June 18, 2012.

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• But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that the next big break, the next opportunity, the big role are just around the corner of the next audition.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

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• Call me names, dearest! Call me thy bird
  That flies to thy breast at one cherishing word,
  That folds its wild wings there, ne'er dreaming of flight,
  That tenderly sings there in loving delight!
  Oh! my sad heart keeps pining for one fond word,--
  Call me pet names, dearest! Call me thy bird!

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Dream, Heart, Names

  Frances Sargent OSGOOD, Felix Octavius Carr DARLEY (1850). “Poems ... Illustrated by ... Darley, etc”, p.365

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• When it comes to love, always be open. Because the second youre not pining after a boy, or a boyfriend, amazing love comes into your life.

  Emma Roberts

  Boys, Amazing Love, Love Always

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• Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Spiritual, Sadness, Sick

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• He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.

  Thomas Mann

  Passion, Would Be, Taste

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• What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Self, Years

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• For me, the present is a golden era. That's the greatest golden era. Right now. I just like pining for lost times.

  Whit Stillman

  Golden, Eras, Lost

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• She was far too busy living out a passionate romance with Jesus Christ to be pining after an earthly prince.

  Leslie Ludy

  Jesus, Romance, Passionate

  Leslie Ludy (2010). “The Lost Art of True Beauty: The Set-Apart Girl's Guide to Feminine Grace”, p.13, Harvest House Publishers

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• We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. . . . He may live without books,-what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,-what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,-what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining?

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Art, Book, Passion

  'Lucile' (1860) pt. 1, canto 2, sect. 24

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• Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Blessing, Heaven

  Frederick Douglass (1855). “My Bondage and My Freedom ...”, p.360

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• People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.

  Taylor Swift

  Missing Someone, People, Trying

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• Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books read secretively late at night. Teenage years reading -trying to read- books I'd heard were important, Naked Lunch, and The Fountainhead, Ulysses and Women in Love... It was as though I had dreamt the perfect lover, who vanished as I woke, leaving me pining and surly.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Teenage, Book, Reading

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• What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want?...Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?

  Rainbow Rowell

  Waiting, What If, Purpose

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• I was an incurable romantic then, same as I am now. I was always pining away after somebody

  Brian May

  "Pop Quiz Classic: Brian May of Queen". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. January 8, 2006.

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• The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

  William James

  Happiness, Attitude, Mean

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.43, Xist Publishing

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