Homesickness Quote by Lionel Shriver Download Open image ““If I was ever glad to have gone, I was never glad to go.”” — Lionel Shriver ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Homesickness Longing Travel
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“There's only one place I want to go and it's to all the places I've never been.” — Nikki rowe Copy Share Image
“If you never left again, I would still spend the rest of my life missing you.” — Tessa Bailey Copy Share Image
“I would never have started this trip if I had known how tough it was, but I couldn't and wouldn't quit.” — Ben Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I'll always be here for you. I'm not going anywhere. I'm never going to leave you.” — Jaci Burton Copy Share Image
“Don't you know that we must always have a place where we never go but where we think we'd be happy if we did?” — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
“If I lived through this day, nay this adventure, I would have one heck of a story to tell when I returned home. If… — Rae Z. Ryans Copy Share Image
“Still, I could find no good reason for not going. So I decided to go.” — Nicolette Milnes Walker Copy Share Image
“I am always going somewhere. Someday I won’t have to go. I will just be in the place that I am.” — Joseph Fink Copy Share Image
The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I’m a journalist, and journalists need news. Deprive them of it, and they go a bit barking. Deprive them of news long enough, and… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“One of the things I learned with Charles," said Gray carefully, "was that finding someone like you does not necessarily mean that either of… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“The idea is that you don't only have one destiny. Younger and younger, kids are pressed to decide what they want to do with… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.' — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn't help me at… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I think that's the biggest favor you can grant anyone, don't you? Permission to be dull. I know Henry will sometimes say something so… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
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… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
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… — Trevor Nisbett Copy Share Image
“He wonders what it would be like to belong somewhere and never doubt it.” — Stephanie Bishop Copy Share Image
It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“…he will always live in a place he is not from. For a long time he thought that habit would counter this fact and… — Stephanie Bishop Copy Share Image
The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that home, so… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no avail. Some… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
Nothing is more often misdiagnosed than our homesickness for Heaven. We think that what we want is sex, drugs, alcohol, a new job, a… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image