Quotes About Homesickness

#1. It's a longing, an aching to complete ourselves, to unite with that which makes us whole. We are longing for God the way a soldier longs for his wife faraway. It a relentless homesickness that, however desperately we try, will accept no substitutes.

Arianna Huffington

#2. You can ache for where you come from, and it's homesickness. A relationship, and it's heartbreak. But is there a word for missing your friends like that?

Emery Lord

#3. One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.

Ruth Pitter

#4. She felt an unexpected pang of homesickness (or was it some physical complaint?) and suddenly remembered that it was her mother's birthday today or tomorrow or sometime last week.

Stephen Wright

#5. Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of earth, to the highness, the fullness and to the all-sufficiency of heaven.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#6. My homesickness wasn't truly for home, I realized. It was for something more elusive. A silent, low-grade, unnamed yearning persisted inside me. It was always there, a reaching feeling that grew stronger when I was alone and listened for it. The rain understood what it was.

Caragh M. O'Brien

#7. 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

#8. The Sufis, like all mystics, are singers of a homesickness that is a kind of hope; all of us are exiles in the world, they tell us, longing to get back to the place that is our rightful home.

Pico Iyer

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. homesickness rose up inside Rincewind like a late-night prawn biriani,

Terry Pratchett

#12. Give me homesickness.
Flash.
Give me nostalgic childhood yearnings.
Flash.

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu ...

Thomas Moore

#14. A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.

Robert Frost

#15. The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that home, so you are assuaging the homesickness.

Joan Didion

#16. Homesickness starts with food

Che Guevera

#17. I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.

John Lennon

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God

John Piper

#23. I feel a sudden wave of homesickness, but not the kind that makes you sad. The kind that reminds you of who you are and where you come from.

Emily Giffin

#24. Perhaps the ache of homesickness was a fair price to pay for having so many good people in her life.

Becky Chambers

#25. There's a German term- heimweh, homesickness. It's a powerful sensation, like a narcotic. A yearning from home, but for something more- a past self, perhaps. A lost self. When I first saw you on the street, Katya, I felt such a sensation ... I have no idea why

Joyce Carol Oates

#26. Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city.

Christos Tsiolkas

#27. There was carpet under Blanchefleur's feet and the scent of clean and delicate things in her nostrils - perfume, babies, soap, and tea. Homesickness hit her like a clenched fist; this was worse than memory.

Suzannah Rowntree

#28. 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. Faith is journeying through space and through time.

Frederick Buechner

#29. Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

John Cheever

#30. Love is homesickness.

Nora Ephron

#31. Songs can be very expressive, Lobsang. You can sing your homesickness.

Terry Pratchett

#32. My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.

F. Sionil Jose

#33. He was now a husband and father, and they had not been in touch in years, yet she could not pretend that he was not a part of her homesickness, or that she did not often think of him, sifting through their past, looking for portents of what she could not name.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#34. But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.

Olive Ann Burns

#35. 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

#36. The ex-pat's life with all its homesickness and loneliness and privileges and perks, with its dizzy ups and miserable downs, was certainly not ordinary.

Brigid Keenan

#37. Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don't know how awful it is unti you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die.

Roald Dahl

#38. Philosophy is really homesickness: the urge to be at home everywhere.

Novalis

#39. Homesickness, for example. In his opinion there are various kinds: a desire for shelter, family nostalgia, a fear of separation or a yearning for love.
"The yearning to have something good to love soon: a place, a person, a particular bed.

Nina George

#40. Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Soren Kierkegaard

#41. When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.

Nicole Krauss

#42. [When thinking about the new relativity and quantum theories] I have felt a homesickness for the paths of physical science where there are ore or less discernible handrails to keep us from the worst morasses of foolishness.

Arthur Eddington

#43. Not if Their Party were waiting,
Not if to talk with Me
Were to Them now, Homesickness
After Eternity.

Emily Dickinson

#44. My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#45. He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.

Thomas Pynchon

#46. Homesickness for the gutter.

Emile Augier

#47. 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

#48. How poor you are, September. You make my heart groan. I know about Homesickness. It begins with H. What will you do?

Catherynne M Valente

#49. Homesickness springs from the isolation of the soul from its surroundings.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#50. A poem is never a put-up job ... It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a loneliness. It is never a thought to begin with. It is at its best when it is a tantalizing vagueness.

Robert Frost

#51. She used to suffer these intense bouts of homesickness in her own bedroom. When she was very small, she would wake up tearing at her bedspread and shrieking, "I wanna go home! I wanna go home!" Which was distressing to all of us, of course, because she was home.

Karen Russell

#52. 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

#53. Spiritual yearning is the homesickness of the soul.

Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

#54. What the soul hardly realizes is that, unbeliever or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.

Dom Hubert Van Zeller

#55. Start with a big fat lump in your throat. Start with a profound sense of wrong, a deep homesickness, a crazy lovesickness, and run with it. If you imagine less, less will be what you undoubtedly deserve. Do what you love. And don't stop until you get what you love.

Robert Frost

#56. Even in Kyoto when I hear the cuckoo I long for Kyoto.

Richard Flanagan

#57. There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap.

Faraaz Kazi

#58. He wished he could have roots spreading under every inch of his lost soil, his beloved lost home, that he could have been part of something, that he could have been himself, walking down the road not taken, living a life in context and not the migrant's hollow journey that had been his fate

Salman Rushdie

#59. A photo frame with many pictures is the best present ever for a long trip. I can almost feel all those moments..

W.

#60. 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

#61. Sometimes the only thing that can make someone feel misplaced is the sight of home.

A.L. Buehrer

#62. Every mile was redolent of associations, which she would not have missed for the world, but each of which made her cry upon 'the days that are no more' with ineffable longing.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#63. 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

#64. Sprawled out on the photographer's mattress with my clothes lying in a heap somewhere in the kitchen, I pull the waistband of my briefs down to expose my hipbones, and I think of home.

Kris Kidd

#65. Do you know what the luckiest thing is?'
'No.'
'It is to be at home everywhere.

Ben Okri

#66. My father says you remember the smell of your country no matter where you are but only recognize it when you're far away.

Aglaja Veteranyi

#67. For this I weep all my days
and throughout my lifetime grieve
that I swam from my own lands
and came from familiar lands
towards these strange doors
to these foreign gates.

Elias Lonnrot

#68. College isn't half as much fun as they told us it was going to be."
"It's not one-hundredth as much fun.

Molly Ringle

#69. He was tired of not being home.

David Towsey

#70. And finally: I reserve for myself the right to yearn after an ecological niche:
...Beneath the sky
Of my America to sigh
For one locality in Russia.

(a passage not for 'general readers' but for 'idiots')

Vladimir Nabokov

#71. Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are in my bones.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#72. A postcard and I'm pining for New England. . .

Amy Ballard

#73. He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.

James Joyce

#74. Traveling, she realized, was like a slow dismemberment of the body. It plucked the heart out of her and split it into pieces, leaving a bit behind wherever she went, never to be whole again.

Rhian J. Martin

#75. It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.

Ovid

#76. Love is when you have not been home for three months and call up home and your daughter picks up the phone and says "Papa, I love you!

Avijeet Das

#77. It's the land of my ancestors. I need to set my feet on that soil and see how I feel. I have missed my mother's warm tortillas and many more things than I can name.

Ruth Behar

#78. She thought it was strange that the mere sensation of savouring the prospect of something could make her think for a while that is must be the prospect of home.

Colm Toibin

#79. I am tired of loving a foreign muse.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#80. Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you.

Ovid

#81. Not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am.

Donna Tartt

#82. Never complete. Never whole.
White skin and an African soul.

Michelle Frost

#83. Heart thoughts are profound, hindsight aches and hope is obscure. I'm craving a great adventure
one that leads me back home.

Donna Lynn Hope

#84. I gave way to a wave of home-sickness that almost shames me now when I recollect it. I find it impossible in cold blood, and at this distance, to put into words the longing that shook me. I have forgotten the pain in the neck, but never will I forget the pain in my heart.

H.V. Morton

#85. Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

Ovid