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Quotes About Longing

It's a long way from Graceland across Jordan to the Promised Land, but Jesus finally came to lead him home.
~ Merle Haggard
The prospect of going home is very appealing.
~ David Ginola
All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.
~ Orhan Pamuk
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
There is no mile as long the final one that leads back home.
~ Katherine Marsh
We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
~ Hermann Hesse
Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise.
~ Jean Klein
In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.
~ Milan Kundera
Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Entering Malibu, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia and long lost sadness, like seeing a home I had left a long time ago and had returned to.
~ Nick Mancuso
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 Never Met A Kentuckian Who Wasn't Either Thinking About Going Home Or Actually Going Home
~ Happy Chandler
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
Churches and trains they all look the same to me now they shoot you some place while we ache to come home somehow.
~ Gregory Alan Isakov
Half to forget the wandering and pain, Half to remember days that have gone by, And dream and dream that I am home again!
~ James Elroy Flecker
That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home.
~ Sarah Silverman
I long for home, long for the sight of home.
~ Homer