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Quotes About Longing

From ev'ry single window, I see your face. But when I reach a window there's an empty space.
~ Larry Conley
Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.
~ Lionel Shriver
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
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
I'd like to get back home to Nova Scotia more, but thankfully, with technology you can call and text and FaceTime. But physically being in Toronto or Nova Scotia... there's nothing like it.
~ Diego Klattenhoff
I think a lot about when times were simpler, when I was still dancing and living with my parents. I really miss living at home sometimes. I get really sad.
~ Hailey Baldwin
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
The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.
~ Larry Ferguson
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
Barcelona is my home and I hope that I stay here for many years.
~ Lionel Messi
You're everything I hope for. You're everything I need. You are so beautiful to me.
~ Joe Cocker
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
Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
~ Anselm Kiefer
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
I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.
~ Walt Disney
Love is only one fine star away.
~ Stevie Nicks
Still desiring, we live without hope.
~ Dante Alighieri
If I should be so blessed as to revisit again my own country, but more especially Manchester, all that I could hope or desire would be presented before in one view.
~ Robert Clive