Book Quote by Huston Smith

“Philosophy is really homesickness: the urge to be at home everywhere.”

— Novalis

“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

“My homesickness is a tangible thing, like a cannon ball of sadness, just pushing into my heart.”

— Heather Day Gilbert

“The world is a great book...they who never stir from home read only a page.”

— St. Augustine

“Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.”…

— Penny Reid

“Perhaps the home I am homesick for is still there, after all.”

— Michael Frayn

“Being homesick is good─it means I am happy in my real life.”

— Judy Greer

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

— John Cheever

“Still, it is like a long hopeless homesickness my missing those young days. To me, they're like my own place that I have gone…

— Grace Paley

“The world is a book and those who stay at home read only a page.”

— Sean Covey

“I am homesick for a place I am not sure even exists. One where my heart is full. My body loved. And my soul…

— Melissa Cox

It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.

— Don DeLillo