You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God — John Piper Copy Share Image
There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap. — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
“He wonders what it would be like to belong somewhere and never doubt it.” — Stephanie Bishop Copy Share Image
He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“What the soul hardly realizes is that, unbeliever or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.” — Hubert Van Zeller Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I knew I needed to move away when I was 15, but when I got to Norwich, I spent nights crying myself… — Craig Bellamy Copy Share Image
It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“it is geography—especially in the displaced form of departures, arrivals, farewells, exile, nostalgia, homesickness, belonging, and travel itself—that is at the core… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“She felt an unexpected pang of homesickness (or was it some physical complaint?) and suddenly remembered that it was her mother's birthday… — Stephen Wright Copy Share Image
“Do you remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It'll be spring soon. And the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“But there’s something about Watonka, they say. Something that pulls us back, the electromagnet that holds all the metal in place. It’s… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“Ordinary homesickness is a miserable feeling, a temporary illness healed by reunion or return. But pining for a home that exists only… — Cheryl A. Tuggle Copy Share Image
“Still, it is like a long hopeless homesickness my missing those young days. To me, they're like my own place that I… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs…… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
when people go away, or when we leave the places we love, or something we treasure goes out of our life -… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
“I initially discovered hiraeth on social media, and it made me suck in my breath as something stirred deep within me. It's… — Karpov Kinrade Copy Share Image
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“A decade ago, Australian philosopher and professor of sustainability Glenn Albrecht set out to coin a term to capture the particular form… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“She was smart and terribly determined, this girl-her will was pure steel, through and through-but she was as human as anyone else.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There is in all our strivings a profound homesickness for God. When we touch another we touch God. When we look at… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
“His familiar husky voice sent a wave of wistfulness through me. A thousand memories spun in my head, tangling together- a rocky… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once.… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
It is with a rush of home-sickness that the thought of death presents itself… Such sentiment is the eternal stock of all… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
