Homesickness Quotes

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

She was smart and terribly determined, this girl-her will was pure steel, through and through-but she was as human as anyone else. She was lonely, too. Lonely in a way that perhaps only single girls fresh from small Midwestern towns know. Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees in the street look not just indifferent but ugly....perhaps even malignant. Homesickness is a real sickness- the ache of the uprooted plant.

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

Ovid

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

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

I felt a pang -- a strange and inexplicable pang that I had never felt before. It was homesickness. Now, even more than I had earlier when I'd first glimpsed it, I longed to be transported into that quiet little landscape, to walk up the path, to take a key from my pocket and open the cottage door, to sit down by the fireplace, to wrap my arms around myself, and to stay there forever and ever.

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

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

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

Sometimes I can’t tell if you hate this place or love it.”“I love its potential. I hate its past. And I don’t like what it is.” She hugs her knees close to her chest. “The way you feel about the place you grew up in is a lot like how you feel about your family.”“How’s that?”She thinks about it for a long time. “Like isn’t the same thing as love.

Robert Jackson Bennett

He wonders what it would be like to belong somewhere and never doubt it.

Stephanie Bishop

....he will always live in a place he is not from. For a long time he thought that habit would counter this fact and custom would disguise it. He thought, in the beginning, that such things would not matter in the long run. But they did, they do, they always will.

Stephanie Bishop

Home is where you feel more welcome, more secure, have more rights, where you are loved. This place can be any place even away from what you would normally call home.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

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

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.

There are many sadnesses in the hearts of men who are far away from their countries.

Alexander McCall Smith

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