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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart.

  Tahir Shah

  Real, Loneliness, Home

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• People say the media is feeding the public's hunger for celebrity news, but that's the drug pusher's mentality. I don't think anybody would be pining for news about Angelina Jolie's babies if it weren't being given to them in the first place.

  Patti Smith

  Baby, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.spin.com

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• Clamorous pauperism feastest
  While honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Ribs, Honest, Labor

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• Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.

  Andrew Lang

  Research, Tradition, Enough

  Andrew Lang (2012). “The Making Of Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.50, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.

  Susan Howatch

  Life, Moon, Men

  FaceBook post by Susan Howatch from Jul 25, 2016

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• Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note.

  Julia Glass

  Years, Play, Long

  Julia Glass (2003). “Three Junes”, Vintage

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• It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In the months to come, Libby and I would analyze our respective exes with the gusto and intellectual rigor of Jesuits.

  Patricia Marx

  Fall, Intellectual, Hobbies

  Patricia Marx (2008). “Him Her Him Again The End of Him”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Barrons laughed again. "And there, my dear Fio, you make one of Womankind's greatest mistakes: Falling in love with a man's potential. We so rarely share the same view of it, and even more rarely care to achieve it. Stop pining for the man you think I could be -- and take a good, long, hard look at the one I am.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Falling In Love, Mistake, Men

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Mar 10, 2014

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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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