“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.” HomeWishHoursPoorEternityLongingDialogueGentleFlux Book:Poems Source: Poems
“You don't know why, but you know you have to go home. It's an eternal longing. It's Marvell's drop of dew wanting to go back to the sky. We're drawn by a force we don't understand, through worlds, through experience.” KnowsWorldHomeSufferingForceSkyEternalLongingDew Author:Frederick Lenz
“I've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between a longing for home and the call for the open road. It's sort of like a tug between two families. I even love to miss my home.” YearsTwoHomeBigsSongNumbersWrittenMissingLongingTensionOpen RoadLonging For Home Author:James Taylor
“Nobody has seen the trekking birds take their way towards such warmer spheres as do not exist, or rivers break their course through rocks and plains to run into an ocean which is not to be found. For God does not create a longing or a hope without having a fulfilling reality ready for them. But our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.” WayDoeHomeRealityRunningCoursesFoundBreakRocksReadyOceanBirdRiversBlessedLongingComing HomeSpheresFulfillingPledgeTrekkingHomesick Book:Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard Source: Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard
“You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing ... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.” WorldCharacterHomeDreamGoneLonelinessAdventureReturnNormalAspectLongingProbabilityOccasionalVikingsHomesickness Author:Agatha Christie
“Moving from unbelief, to Evangelicalism, and finally home to the Catholic Church, Professor Holly Ordway reveals how a gifted mind, longing for transcendence, can only appropriate it if it is wholly given by the reach and power of God's grace.” IfsMindHomeMovingGivenChurchGraceCatholicLongingAppropriateProfessorsGiftedTranscendenceCatholic ChurchUnbeliefGod's GracePower Of GodHollies Author:Francis J. Beckwith