Top 1200 Longing For Home Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Desire and longing are the whips of God.

I've nothing against stay-at-home mums, but I love going to work, I love what I do and I wouldn't want to start resenting my home life if I was staying home 365 days a year.

I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.

Could it be in longing we are most ourselves?

I work very hard at relationships. I've done the thing of being home. I worked all day and came home and did all the stuff at home that a woman is supposed to do, the cooking and the entertaining. I'm a perfectionist, and, besides, I loved all those things.

I don't have a vast longing for the stage.

There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.

Try, start always at home. This is my encouragement to all writers, start at home. All virtues and vices begin at home, and then spread abroad.

Nest really came out of a process where I was trying to design the most connected and the most green home that I knew of. I was curious of just about everything that goes into a home and building a home.

Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home.

Sometimes, language is the sound of longing

It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere.

Poetry keeps longing alive.

I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.

I felt instantly at home, and wanted only to dismiss Alistair, along with the rest of Justice Hall, that I might have a closer look at the shelves.I had to content myself instead with a strolling perusal, my hands locked behind my back to keep them from reaching out for Le Morte D'Arthur, Caxton 1485 or the delicious little red-and-gilt Bestiary, MS Circa 1250 or.... If I took one down, I should be lost. So I looked, like a hungry child in a sweet shop, and trailed out on my guide's heels with one longing backward glance.

Home, to me, is where I am and where I feel most comfortable. Obviously, Malaysia is home. In L.A., my home is my apartment because that's my Malaysia.

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

England was never my home. I had a home there but Dublin is my home so leaving Ireland was the hardest thing I had to do.

All that produces longing in the heart deprives it of its freedom.

We range widely, we readers of fiction, but I think we all need a home. Mine is science fiction. It's my home shelf, my homeland, my home planet, my essential genre.

My love is as a fever, longing still.

There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

What is vanity but the longing to survive?

Longing performs all things

When I went home, my family became a little lonely family because it was just me and my mom. Part of my longing to go back to work was wanting to be surrounded by these people who were teaching me things and drinking bad coffee at three in the morning while we were lying around in a bikini in the winter. Somehow it just felt like real life. It felt more like real life than my life.

All human eyes have longing in them.

That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference.

I go to work, I do a job, I play a role, and then I go home. I don't wear a cape at home. I'm not an invulnerable alien at home.

Only longing can fill with more of itself.

I don't feel at home in New Orleans. I don't feel at home in Austin or L.A. And I just felt immediately at home in northern Australia.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.

Our greatest longing is to be intimate.

A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.

Longing alone is singer to the lute.

Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.

Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing.

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

And now the question: what do we do with the longing for what can destroy us?

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

We have no hope and yet we live in longing.

There's no shame in longing for peace.

Tired of myself longing for what I have not

People are longing for tribe and community.

A mountaineer’s house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.

I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

Writing is a constant exercise in longing.

There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

She was lost in her longing to understand.

There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe some truth in it- do you think this is a feeling one must try to forget and to banish, or is it 'the longing for God,' which one must not fear, but cherish to see if it may bring us some good? Is it 'the longing for God' which leads us to make a choice which we never regret? Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

The filming happens in my home, and I cook like I do at home, on my home stove with my house pots and so on. That's who I am. I am very true to my real profile.

Longing on a large scale makes history.

I'm always looking for ways that I can work from home with my home studio and stay busy. This is a great way to do it. Having a home studio has made projects like this a lot easier.

There is so much deep contradiction in my soul. Such deep longing for God - so deep that it is painful - a suffering continual - and yet not wanted by God - repulsed - empty - no faith - no love - no zeal. Souls hold no attraction - Heaven means nothing - to me it looks like an empty place - the thought of it means nothing to me and yet this torturing longing for God. Pray for me please that I keep smiling at Him in spite of everything. For I am only His - so He has every right over me. I am perfectly happy to be nobody even to God. . . . Your devoted child in J.C. M. Teresa