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Quotes About Yearning

Endeavors that help me satisfy you, my goddess of desire, pleasure, and corny one-liners.
~ Sylvia Day
Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.
~ Frank Langella
I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help me but not so uncontrollable. I longed for His warm presence, times when He seemed more… safe.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.
~ Henry Rollins
If it doesn't take your breath away, make a bigger wish.
~ Stephen Richards
Her body begs to be taken away and put into a warm bed with the sheets pulled high, even though nothing can help now.
~ Steven Herrick
A pod in the Matrix is looking pretty good right now.
~ Catherine McKenzie, Forgotten
With each day that our huge ship was on the ocean, my sense of being further and further away from my loved ones, my home, and my environment grew stronger.
~ Tilly Dunn, Exit Stage Left
Longing on a large scale makes history.
~ Don DeLillo
The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
~ C. S. Lewis
But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
I was not content at home. . . I wanted to live like a colorful butterfly in the sun.
~ Mata Hari
All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
I'm so lost without you. Feeling lonely, scared & cold. I'm so lost without you. Tell me baby, when are you coming home?
~ Roch Voisine
Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise.
~ Jean Klein
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.
~ Isak Dinesen
We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.
~ Jerry Spinelli
It's not a great song unless it makes your DNA remember Eden and your spirit long for Home.
~ Mark Lowry
I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.
~ Henry David Thoreau
How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.
~ William Faulkner
I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.
~ Franz Kafka
I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.
~ Anne Rice
I feel just as hungry today as I did the day I left home.
~ Madonna Ciccone