Quotes of: Homesickness Keyword

People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns.

Tom Shales

He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.

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Have you ever been homesick for someplace that doesn't actually exist anymore? Someplace that exists only in your mind?

Jenny Lawson

I am a citizen-at-large, of everywhere and nowhere, so sometimes I get pretty homesick.

Rich Benjamin

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

When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.

Nicole Krauss

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Soren Kierkegaard

One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.

Ruth Pitter

Spiritual yearning is the homesickness of the soul.

The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns That Bind You

Most of the people are homesick anyway, and a little lonely, and they hide themselves in their hair and are turned into flowers

Sculptor's Daughter

You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America.

Ken Jennings

I'm always homesick for the journey,” I had once written in ink speckled script, adding almost as an afterthought, “...no matter what it may hold.

S.C. Barrus

How poor you are, September. You make my heart groan. I know about Homesickness. It begins with H. What will you do?

Catherynne M. Valente

One thing I wish I'd done differently in my career is insist on having friends or family on tour. I was really young when I travelled the world with Eternal, and I was always homesick.

Louise Nurding

We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known

Carson McCullers

The grand scheme of a life, maybe (just maybe), is not about knowing or not knowing, choosing or not choosing. Perhaps what is truly known can’t be described or articulated by creativity or logic, science or art — but perhaps it can be described ...

Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design

It is necessary to find one's own way in New York. New York City is not hospitable. She is very big and she has no heart. She is not charming. She is not sympathetic. She is rushed and noisy and unkempt, a hard, ambitious, irresolute place, not very ...

Love

Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…

Original Self: Living with Paradox and Originality

A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.

Robert Frost

I would have loved to have cracked America. When I tried, I got homesick. Then, when I was in New York, my nanna died, and I just wanted to come home.

Cilla Black

I reluctantly left the series because a) my age. I'm 68 tomorrow and time is very precious for me to spend time at home with my family and especially with the grandchildren. They're aged 7 and 5. After three years I became homesick for my home.

Richard Briers