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Quotes About Yearning

Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home
~ Orson Scott Card
That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things, To have no home in the present. And these are wishes: gentle dialogues Of the poor hours with eternity.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
A restless spirit who can't reach his goal, can't find a home until I've found my soul.
~ Ray Davies
I saw Sonora before me, so otherworldly, so desolate, some cast-out mistress on the pale blue planet, and longed suddenly to stay.
~ Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora
Warm, enticing scents were floating down, basil and oregano and tomato. It made Wes long for something, something he couldn't place. A happy childhood, a home.
~ Sarah Addison Allen, Lost Lake
And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.
~ Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Then in the interest of full honesty, I really wish you'd kiss me right now.
~ Ann Aguirre
Come make me sticky. Dimitri to Honor
~ Nalini Singh
I guess I'm still holding on to something that I know will probably never happen, because somewhere deep down inside me, I have this little piece of hope that someday, it will.
~ Drake
Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.
~ Jean Kilbourne
I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me.
~ Joel Madden
Without hope we live in desire.
~ Dante Alighieri
I truly hope the future will bring me something to feel nostalgic about, because there's really nothing much so far I can remember fondly.
~ Elliott Smith
God of hope, I look to you with an open heart and yearning spirit. During this Advent season, I will keep alert and awake, listening for your word and keeping to your precepts. My hope is in you.
~ Matthew Kelly
Still desiring, we live without hope.
~ Dante Alighieri
What you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion.
~ Christopher Pike
Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
~ Augustus William Hare
I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved.
~ Rupert Friend
Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
~ Ambrose Bierce
There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me.
~ Ira Gershwin
Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
~ Simone de Beauvoir