Homesick Quotes

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  We are torn between 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

  Travel, Jukebox, Road Trip

  Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.408, Library of America

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  We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

  Carson McCullers

  Jukebox, Nostalgia, Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

  Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.408, Library of America

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• Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

  Jodi Picoult

  Order, Missing, Beloved

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.452, Simon and Schuster

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• When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.

  Donna Tartt

  Moon, Looks, Look Up

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• I get homesick a lot. That can make me so emotional that I sometimes feel like crying- but never in front of anyone. No way!

  Nick Carter

  Emotional, Way, Sometimes

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• Name me no names for my disease,
  With uninforming breath;
  I tell you I am none of these,
  But homesick unto death —Homesick for hills that I had known,
  For brooks that I had crossed,
  Before I met this flesh and bone
  And followed and was lost… .And though they break my heart at last,
  Yet name no name of ills.
  Say only, “Here is where he passed,
  Seeking again those hills.

  Witter Bynner

  Heart, Names, Disease

  Witter Bynner (1936). “Selected Poems”

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• If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.

  Stephen King

  People, Important, Friendly

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.425, Simon and Schuster

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• You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

  Maya Angelou

  Home, Truth Is, Cozy Home

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick.

  Joseph Conrad

  Littles

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Nostromo”, p.58, Joseph Conrad

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• Homesickness is . . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. . . . You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.

  John Cheever

  Country, Time, Long

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

  Judith Thurman

  Travel, Adventure, Dreamer

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• I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Grieving, Heaven, Leaving

  Louisa May Alcott, Barbara Steadman (1997). “Little Women Coloring Book”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Strong, Home

  "Martin Chuzzlewit". Book by Charles Dickens, Chapter 35, 1844.

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• I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me.

  Alice Steinbach

  Home, Past, People

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• When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

  E. W. Howe

  Music, Piano, People

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• Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspiring, Encouraging, Travel

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home.

  Sarah Silverman

  Home, Description, Feels

  Sarah Silverman (2010). “The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Home, Journey, Ice Water

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• We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places, it is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against which we often measure our present.

  Alan Gussow

  Sight, Smell, Sound

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• our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.

  Isak Dinesen

  Blessed, Home, Longing

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard”, p.10, Vintage

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

  Tove Jansson

  Lonely, Flower, Hair

  Tove Jansson (2006). “A Winter Book: Selected Stories”, Sort of Books

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• Wake up and ponder the future

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Travel, Wake Up, Pondering

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one.

  Charles Dickens

  Strong, Home, Names

  Charles Dickens, John Forster (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens ...: Martin Chugglewit”, p.160

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• Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

  Loren Eiseley

  Beach, War, Ocean

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.45, Library of America

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• Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complaints -- that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to the bone, homesick, and sad. We were supposed to speak directly about our feelings without appearing ungrateful, no-account, or unfilial.

  Lisa See

  Writing, Ungrateful, Feelings

  Lisa See (2011). “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan”, p.197, A&C Black

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