Quotes about Longing
Twice or thrice had I lov'd thee, Before I knew thy face or name
- John Donne
I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.
- Virginia Woolf
Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?
- John Milton
One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.
- Thomas Jefferson
The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
- CS Lewis
All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
It's not a great song unless it makes your DNA remember Eden and your spirit long for Home.
- Mark Lowry
There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.
- Steven Curtis Chapman
My sweetest hope is to lose hope
- Pierre Corneille
The most heartbreakingly beautiful girl I ever hope to see
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Nostalgia: How long's that been around?
- Bill Bailey
The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.
- Gordon Hinckley