Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground. — Judith Thurman
We are homesick most for the places we have never known. — Carson Mccullers
I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me. — Alice Steinbach
If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be. — Stephen King
Being away from home is nice but home is best. — Swedish Proverbs
I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven. — Louisa May Alcott
How many people have you made homesick for God? — Oswald Chambers
We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. — Carson Mccullers
We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind. — Clementine Paddleford
When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go. — Donna Tartt
We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness. — Hermann Hesse
My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars. — Nikos Kazantzakis
You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right. — Maya Angelou
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. — Robert Frost
Do not make homes out of people. This will leave you homesick and sad. — K.Michelle
I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick. — Joseph Conrad
our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home. — Isak Dinesen
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. — John Cheever
I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. — Henry David Thoreau
I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be. — John Cheever
Wake up and ponder the future — Hunter S. Thompson
Feeling Homesick Quotes
You need a sanctuary. Somewhere where it doesn't feel like it's being tainted by everybody's opinions and other people's money. I think I'm kind of homesick right now. — Mikky Ekko
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home. — Edward W. Howe
That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home. — Sarah Silverman
I get homesick a lot. That can make me so emotional that I sometimes feel like crying- but never in front of anyone. No way! — Nick Carter
I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what or where home was. — Marian Keyes
I can get on with all different sorts of people, and I never feel homesick, particularly, or I've never felt kind of patriotic towards any one country. — Andy Serkis
I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that’s odd, isn’t it, because I was home, all the time. What on earth are we to make of that? — David Foster Wallace
Being Homesick Quotes
It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated. — Sayings
I don't want to turn into one of those pathetic creatures who are always homesick, always saying I wish I were still in Beirut. I don't want to become like you, split between here and there. I know I'm not happy here, but why should I be unhappy in two countries? — Hanan al-Shaykh
We need to be homesick for heaven. Though we have never been there, we still have something God has built within us that gives us a certain homesickness, a desire to be there. — Greg Laurie
...there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there. — Don Delillo
In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of being at once bound and free. The garden breeds a longing for the wild; the wild a homesickness for the garden. — Dorothy Richardson
...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it. — Joseph Mitchell
He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place. — James Joyce
A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." - W. H. Auden
"A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words. — Robert Frost
Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it. — John Updike
The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God. — Hubert Van Zeller
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. — Loren Eiseley
Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was. — Jodi Picoult
Homesickness is . . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. . . . You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find. — John Cheever
Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday. — Zora Neale Hurston
I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful. — Henry David Thoreau
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have. — E. W. Howe
The bible never belittles disappointment, but it does add one key word: temporary - What we feel now, we will not always feel. Our disappointment is itself a sign, and aching, a hunger for something better. And faith is, in the end, a kind of homesickness - for a home we have never visited but have never once stopped longing for. — Philip Yancey
Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a sure thing than a hunch. Faith is waiting. — Frederick Buechner
It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement — Jacques Derrida
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. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that. — Eva Ibbotson
On his homesickness during the Barcelona Olympics -I miss America. I miss crime and murder. I miss Philadelphia. There hasn't been a brutal stabbing or anything here the last 24 hours. I've missed it. — Charles Barkley
I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick. — Magnus Carlsen
We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places, it is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against which we often measure our present. — Alan Gussow
Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. — Anne Tyler
Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no avail. Some say that over time homesickness loses its specific content, that it starts to smolder and only then becomes all-consuming, because it’s no longer focused on a concrete home. I am one of the people who say that. — Herta Muller
Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God — John Piper
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