Homesick Quotes

73 Homesick quotes by 62 unique authors

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… — Ken Jennings
I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. — Henry David Thoreau
There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia. — Joan Didion
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… — Mikky Ekko
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… — Loren Eiseley
I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work. — Jesse Eisenberg
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have. — E. W. Howe
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… — Tom Shales
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate. — J.R.R. Tolkien
our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home. — Isak Dinesen
I’m not like the rest of you; I never made any plans about what I’d do when I grew up; I never thought of being… — Louisa May Alcott
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… — Marian Keyes
It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the… — Carson McCullers
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… — Eva Ibbotson
I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I… — Louisa May Alcott
We are homesick most for the places we have never known. — Carson McCullers
Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a… — Hugo Hamilton
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,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
He felt homesick for places he had never been. He missed hearts he had never loved. — Pete Wentz
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… — John Flanagan
I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be. — John Cheever
I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick? — Carson McCullers
Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a… — Lisa See
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… — Stephen King
We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for… — Carson McCullers

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