“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
“Sometimes touring can warp reality because you're never in one place long enough to get a feel for it. You don't interact with people long enough to know what real life is. That's why a lot of artists write songs about longing and missing people when they're on the road. I do my best to keep my mind open and I read a lot when I'm on tour, so I hope I have good things to write about. I'm constantly in the songwriting process.” PeopleKnowsFeelsWritingMindLongRealSometimesEnoughRealityLife IsArtistSongProcessMissingLongingGood ThingsReal LifeSongwritingWriting ProcessTouringWarp Author:Jason Mraz
“I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful. I'd been missing both during these last hard years, because both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish and I'd been living in a giant trash compactor of nonstop anxiety. As for how to balance the urge for pleasure against the longing for devotion...well, surely there was a way to learn that trick.” WayYearsWellsHardWantedLastsBeautifulSpacePleasureMissingDivineBalanceAnxietyStressLongingTricksDevotionGreekGiantsEnjoymentUrgesWorldlyTrashTranscendenceStress Free Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“Your Letters concerning Miss N. have given me as much Concern as they ought-not knowing the Character nor what to advise, but feeling all a Fathers Tenderness, longing to be at home that I might enquire and consider and take the Care I ought.” CharacterFeelingsHomeMightCareFatherGivenFamilyKnowingMissingOughtConcernLettersLongingTendernessNot KnowingAdvise Author:John Adams
“On the other hand, we worked a year on this and some people are going to watch it in a night and go, "We want more!" And there is something I miss about the longing and the anticipation for the next episode.” PeopleWantYearsHandsNightNextWatchesMissingLongingAnticipationEpisodes Author:Jenji Kohan
“homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.” TryingMindLongHas BeensStatesMissingLongingGet BackState Of MindImaginaryAlways TryingMissing SomeoneHomesicknessProzacProzac Nation Book:Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now” ThinkingLoveFeelingsSadnessMissingRight NowSadLongingLost LoveRomantic LoveValentine's DayMissing SomeoneDon't Give UpMissing YouI Miss YouBeing SadFeeling SadMissed YouSad LifeSadness Of LifeI Missed YouMiss MeSadness And LoveMissing You LoveSad FeelingSad Break Up LoveReally Sad Break UpMissing A Person Author:Edna St. Vincent Millay