“You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour...”— John Keats, amazon.com
“What’s wrong is that every morning and every night, I lie in bed wondering why you’re not beside me.”— K.A. Tucker, amazon.com
“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it — to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Come over. I don’t really mind whether we talk for hours, get blind drunk, or sit in silence and look up to the stars. Sometimes, the world down here just gets a bit much, and I need to lose myself in someone’s company for a little while.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I…”— Vita Sackville West, amazon.com
“I love you. I worry about you. I wonder whether I tell you enough how I love you and want you and need you and how I am diminished … when you are not with me and how I am multiplied when you are here.”— Pat Frank, amazon.com
“I am missing you most in the silence between songs on my favourite records. Sometimes it takes so long for the music to start.”— Andrea Gibson, ohandreagibson.tumblr.com
“I need to see you. I need to feel you. I want the routine with you and I want the madness with you. I want all of it with you. Feed the cats and get on the damn plane. I want you here with me.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“We never talked for very long at a time. It was simply the pleasure of discovering what we each felt.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Because she could not go near all these wonderful things, she longed for them all the more.”— Hans Christian Andersen, amazon.com
“I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.”— Bram Stoker, amazon.com
“I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break.”— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com
“Homesick is just a state of mind for me, that I’m always missing someone or some place or something, I’m always trying to get back some imaginary somewhere. My life has been one long longing.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com
“I am homesick for a place I am not sure even exists. One where my heart is full. My body loved. And my soul understood.”— Unknown (via QUOTEMADNESS), quotemadness.com
“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”— Maya Angelou, amazon.com