Top 100 Homesick Quotes
#1. At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.
John Gould
#2. He got up and stalked out of the house, slamming the screen door.
My mother explained.
He has a gentle heart, she said. It is simply that he is homesick and such a large man.
William, Saroyan
#3. One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.
Henry Ward Beecher
#4. 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
#5. You're not built for riding, either," Horace added. "I'd say more saddle sore than homesick."
Svenal sighed ruefully, shifting his buttocks for the twentieth time to find a more comfortable spot.
"It's true," he said. "I've been discovering parts of my backside I never knew existed.
John Flanagan
#6. I was thinking of Cambridge, and then I got a bit homesick for a minute, 'cause I never been this far away from home before. But the I remember you're here, and now I'm not homesick no more.
J.L. Merrow
#7. Hey, T-Rex? Remind me next time I want to get smartass with you that it's a really stupid move on my part? (Talon)
Oh, no, you don't, you wuss. You told me the next time you saw Ash you were going to ask him if he'd seen the movie 10,000 BC and if it'd made him homesick. (Wulf)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#8. 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
#9. I'm always homesick for the journey," I had once written in ink speckled script, adding almost as an afterthought, " ... no matter what it may hold.
S.C. Barrus
#10. 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
#11. I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.
Jesse Eisenberg
#12. Life was full of adventure: I learnt the smell of danger - I've got a sixth sense for it now. We're homesick for it, some of us; it's called the 'Afghan syndrome'.
Svetlana Alexievich
#14. I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.
John Cheever
#15. Sometimes he felt like he'd been gone his whole life
in exile, away from the place he was supposed to be, and that, soldier-like, he was pining to be returned. Homesick for a place he'd never been.
Gillian Flynn
#16. If it is possible to be homesick for the world, even places one has never been and knows one will never see, this book is the child of such homesickness.
Huston Smith
#17. 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
#18. When I was 12 years old, or however old I was when Bringing It All Back Home came out, I'd just skip back and forth endlessly between 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' and 'It's Alright, Ma' and 'Mr. Tambourine Man,' and now my Dylan roots are showing big time.
Rodney Crowell
#19. His body heat seeps into my side, as does his sweet smell that makes me homesick for a home I've never had.
Lindy Zart
#22. I am a citizen-at-large, of everywhere and nowhere, so sometimes I get pretty homesick.
Rich Benjamin
#23. Homesick? For a village in the middle of nowhere? Where there's no work and everyone
Susanne O'Leary
#24. You can never give another person that which you have found, but you can make him homesick for what you have.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#25. Being seasick at sea is not the same as being homesick at home.
Miriam Toews
#27. If it form the one landscape that we the inconstant ones
Are consistently homesick for, this is chiefly
Because it dissolves in water.
W. H. Auden
#28. I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick.
Joseph Conrad
#29. It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.
Newt Gingrich
#30. Perhaps the home I am homesick for is still there, after all.
Michael Frayn
#31. 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
#32. After I've been in America for a while, I get homesick for Scotland.
Billy Boyd
#33. Most of the people are homesick anyway, and a little lonely, and they hide themselves in their hair and are turned into flowers.
Tove Jansson
#34. There's just something about the way he sings. It makes me think of when it snows outside, and the fire is warm, and Podo is telling us a story while you're cooking, and there's no place I'd rather be
but for some reason I still feel ... homesick.
Andrew Peterson
#35. A girl from Pittsburgh was a good thing, like an anchor. Every homesick traveler should have one.
Kelly Link
#36. In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.
Vincent Van Gogh
#37. You can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.
Joseph Mitchell
#38. It was possible to be homesick for a time, and to be lonely for the only other person who could recall it.
Robin Hobb
#39. Our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.
Karen Blixen
#40. Well, that explains the dreamy accent. And why transvestites would make him feel homesick.
- SINGLE-MINDED
Lisa Daily
#41. A rabbit sneeze on the morning breeze sets homesick hearts aglow sitting with his rumps in a chicory clump and longing for a nice plump doe.
Richard Adams
#42. Have you ever been homesick for someplace that doesn't
actually exist anymore? Someplace that exists only in your
mind?
Jenny Lawson
#45. She explained to him that she had been homesick, and that Father Flood had inscribed her on the course as a way of making her busy, and how studying in the evening made her feel happy, or as happy as she had been since she had left home.
Colm Toibin
#46. I'm homesick all the time. I miss my animals. I miss my family. I miss my friends.
Brittany Howard
#47. 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
#48. Do not make homes out of people. This will leave you homesick and sad.
K.Michelle
#49. I don't especially like to travel, not the way many people do. I know many people that love to go to far-off and different places, and I've never been like that. I seem to get homesick as quickly as a child.
Elizabeth Strout
#50. When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they've never had, and never will have
E.W. Howe
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. I AM homesick after mine own kind,
Oh I know that there are folk about me,
friendly faces,
But I am homesick after mine own kind.
Ezra Pound
#55. When I first moved to London, I felt very homesick and yearned after the countryside a lot. Because London's hard. It's a big place, and it's lonely. It takes a while to get into it. But once I got into the flow of it and started to grow up, I realised that my home is wherever I am.
Toby Kebbell
#56. The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
Anne Tyler
#57. Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
John Cheever
#58. My whole life, I've felt I was homesick for somewhere I'd never known.' She told me that in Britain, where she grew up, the Celts called it 'hiraeth' - a longing for home.
Kate Lord Brown
#59. The spectacle of the constabulary in the terminal with automatic weapons slung on their shoulders also made me homesick, confirming I was again in a country with its malnourished neck under a dictator's loafer.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#60. There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia.
Joan Didion
#61. Sometimes ... we grow homesick for heaven. Many times in the midst of the sin, suffering, and sorrow of this life there is a tug at our soul. That is homesickness coupled with anticipation.
Billy Graham
#62. I came into Chicago in winter - I'd never been so cold in my life! I was very homesick, and a poor student at that time. America seemed so different and so filled with amazing things - and almost all of them were out of my reach.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#64. 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
#65. Don't think I am not homesick for America. I say 'homesick' advisedly because I am a man with two homes - America, which gave me hospitality for many happy years, and where my daughter was born; and my native England.
Leslie Howard
#66. I better stop thinking in this manner, or before I know where I am I'll be bursting into tears, and it's a nice thing getting homesick before you even leave a place at all, so it is.
Walter Macken
#67. I never used to get homesick when I first moved to L.A.
Michaela Conlin
#68. It's impossible to feel homesick with the familiar weight of the book in my hands.
Paige McKenzie
#69. People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns.
Tom Shales
#70. 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
#71. christmas is a time when you get homesick-even when you're home.
Carol Nelson
#72. It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.
Don DeLillo
#73. Being homesick is good-it means I am happy in my real life.
Judy Greer
#74. I reluctantly left the series because a) my age. I'm 68 tomorrow and time is very precious for me to spend time at home with my family and especially with the grandchildren. They're aged 7 and 5. After three years I became homesick for my home.
Richard Briers
#75. In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#76. Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.
Tyra Banks
#77. His boredom was like a nostalgia for the whole world. He was homesick for everywhere but here.
Christopher Isherwood
#78. 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
#79. He felt homesick for places he had never been. He missed hearts he had never loved.
Pete Wentz
#80. I would have loved to have cracked America. When I tried, I got homesick. Then, when I was in New York, my nanna died, and I just wanted to come home.
Cilla Black
#81. 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
#82. I am alone in the world, Dolores, and I am homesick for my own kind.
Kate DiCamillo
#83. You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America.
Ken Jennings
#84. 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
#85. When you get homesick, it's not something missing, it's something present, a visit. People and places from far away arrive and keep you company for a while.
Erri De Luca
#86. Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.
John Updike
#87. The hardest thing about moving to California from Connecticut was just missing my family. If I went back, it would be just because I was homesick.
Kevin Nealon
#88. No one has yet believed in God and the kingdom of God, no one has yet heard about the realm of the resurrected, and not been homesick from that hour, waiting and looking forward joyfully to being released from bodily existence.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#89. Now that he was navigating, his celestial mood was shattered. Wild, animal thirst for life, mixed with homesick longing for the free airs and the sights and smells of earth-for grass and meat and beer and tea and the human voice-awoke in him.
C.S. Lewis
#90. When you feel homesick,' he said, 'just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.
Donna Tartt
#91. 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
#92. All my stories take place on the West Coast - not the beach, but smaller inland towns. I feel homesick, and I find inspiration in capturing that.
Adrian Tomine
#93. It dawned on me that no person is as poetically homesick as someone who has come to New York for the first time and glimpsed a small vestige of her home state.
Suzanne Rindell
#94. I remember something that my granny told me once about these misty mountains of ours they call the Smokies. Granny said God hung that haze on purpose, to hide these hills from the folks up in Heaven who was raised here, so they wouldn't look down and be homesick.
Vicki Lane
#96. I loved seeing your world. It truly was fascinating. But as the days and weeks went by, I was so homesick for the rivers, the forests, I could hardly wait to come home.
Janette Oke
#97. And I am homesick After mine own kind that know, and feel And have some breath for beauty and the arts.
Ezra Pound
#98. They all saw her as a little sister, someone cute and sweet to spend time with when they were feeling homesick or their girlfriends were busy. They didn't see her as a woman, as someone worthy of spending time with, someone worth the risk of losing their heart.
R.L. Mathewson
#99. One thing I wish I'd done differently in my career is insist on having friends or family on tour. I was really young when I travelled the world with Eternal, and I was always homesick.
Louise Nurding
#100. Home, he murmured. It's always the hardest to leave ... because it gives you the biggest punch in the gut as you're on your way off. All the memories come flooding in ... and you're left with a feeling of emptiness. You're homesick before you're even gone.
Zechariah Barrett
