Ageing is an extraordinary process... If you are pining for youth I think it produces a stereotypical old man because you only live in memory, you live in a place that doesn't exist ... I think ageing is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person that you always should have been. David Bowie
A sensible man takes pleasure in what he has instead of pining for what he has not. Democritus
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
They looked forward to that moment with joy, but without haste, not pining for it, but seeming to have a foretaste of it in their hearts, of which they talked to one another. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
The laughter of someone pining for his beloved is like that of someone who is always crying. Indonesian Proverb