Quotes About Hiraeth

#1. Every Sri Lankan, and almost every visitor to Sri Lanka, carries a longing for the place in some small form - hiraeth, the Welsh call it - wherever they go and whatever their background. It binds them however much the war and politics might try to divide them.

Romesh Gunesekera

#2. 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

#3. This perhaps is what is meant by hiraeth: a lifelong yearning for what is gona and out of reach.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#4. I have been a refugee for the last forty years in the luminous land of opportunity. Still my heart is aching with hiraeth for my native land.

Debasish Mridha

#5. The Hemlock Tearoom and Stationery

Lemony Snicket

#6. You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?

L.M. Montgomery

#7. It is a natural goal of Iran to try and expel the Fifth Fleet from Bahrain.

Elliott Abrams

#8. I'd like - inviting aliens and have them observe what we do because so much of what we do that we take for granted will just be weird or extraordinary or just plain dumb when observed by an alien from another civilization.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#9. I know. I must be pretty spectacular.

Ashlan Thomas

#10. Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

Lord Byron

#11. The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

William Osler

#12. the healthy self, however, must always be vigilant against the laziness of the sick self that still lurks within us.

M. Scott Peck

#13. A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as possible.

Evgeny Morozov

#14. So I went to bed, full, happy, and caring nothing for all the hurt of all the englished Welshmen that ever festered upon a proud land

Richard Llewellyn

#15. Misery has a top, but no bottom. So you have to climb out.

Marty Rubin

#16. I'm telling you that the cure is the disease. The main source of the illness in this world is the doctor's own illness; his compulsion to try to cure and his fraudulent belief that he can.

Samuel Shem

#17. I don't like to ask myself how much time there is left, rather how much time have I had.

Jack Griffen

#18. Growing up like rewriting is simply admitting how clueless you were not so long ago.

Scott Westerfeld

#19. Representational formats are important and interesting, and I'm going to ignore them for the most part.

Robert Kurzban