Homesickness Quotes

48 quotes by 44 authors

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. — John Cheever
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… — Joan Didion
One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road. — Ruth Pitter
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… — Greg Laurie
At first he thought he felt bad because he was afraid of leading an army, but it wasn't true. He knew he'd make a good… — Orson Scott Card
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… — Jacques Derrida
Homesickness is . . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. . . . You don't… — John Cheever
The great Pioneer Missionaries all had 'inverted homesickness' this passion to call that country their home which was most in need of the Gospel. In… — Samuel Marinus Zwemer
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… — Edward McKendree Bounds
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
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… — Charles Barkley
Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no avail. Some say… — Herta Muller
Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been so… — Jerry Saltz
Nothing is more often misdiagnosed than our homesickness for Heaven. We think that what we want is sex, drugs, alcohol, a new job, a raise,… — Randy Alcorn
New York does nothing for those of us who are inclined to love her except implant in our hearts a homesickness that baffles us until… — Maeve Brennan
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… — Frederick Buechner
After close to a year of traveling, I had seen things in the world and in myself, both good and bad, that I had never… — Bethany Dillon
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… — Roald Dahl
If they don't board and live by themselves, even in their second year they've got no lounge or kitchen table and it's a pretty lonely… — Trevor Nisbett
Homesickness for the gutter. — Emile Augier

Who Wrote These Homesickness Quotes

44 authors contributed a total of 48 Homesickness Quotes, led by these top contributors: