"Philosophy is really homesickness." — George MacDonald

More Homesickness Quotes

This quote is filed under Homesickness Quotes, one of 48 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• 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… — 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… — Greg Laurie
• At first he thought he felt bad because he was afraid of leading an army, but it wasn't true. He… — Orson Scott Card
• It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the… — Jacques Derrida
• Homesickness is . . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.… — John Cheever
• The great Pioneer Missionaries all had 'inverted homesickness' this passion to call that country their home which was most in… — Samuel Marinus Zwemer
• Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the… — Edward McKendree Bounds
• The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness… — Hubert Van Zeller
• On his homesickness during the Barcelona Olympics -I miss America. I miss crime and murder. I miss Philadelphia. There hasn't… — Charles Barkley
• Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and… — Herta Muller

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