Age Quote by Grace Paley

“For one last time, I said my goodbyes to the place I’d known as home for the last decade, and for the first time,…

— Nicole Sobon

“Coming into the home where I grew up always fills me with a confused nostalgia. Everything is as it has been for thirty years.”

— Carol Mason

“It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home,…

— Danzy Senna

“You can't go home again. Your childhood is lost. The friends of your youth are gone. Your present is slipping away from you. Nothing…

— Heraclitus of Ephesus

“When you get homesick, it's not something missing, it's something present, a visit. People and places from far away arrive and keep you company…

— Erri De Luca

“This is home, it's the only place I want to be, but at the same time everything familiar feels strange. It's the same as…

— Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter

“I realized that my time in this place had come to an end; now that my schooldays were over, I no longer belonged here.…

— Peter Ackroyd

“Everyone else goes home for nostalgia, and happy memories. I end up feeling like I never fit in with the family as a child,…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“The importance of my old life is dimming as I move toward the bright light I've seen once before. It's allowing me to come…

— Lurlene McDaniel

“I need to move around a bit. To shuffle my surroundings. To wake up in cities I don't know my way around and have…

— Beau Taplin

“I began to mourn the simplicity of my childhood, the warmth of my family that now seemed lost, years had passed by and we…

— Donal O'Callaghan

“...Nostalgia seems something like the pain of ignorance, of not knowing. You are far away, and I don't know what has become of you.…

— Milan Kundera