Quotes About Homesickness

I loved seeing your world. It truly was fascinating. But as the days and weeks went by, I was so homesick for the rivers, the forests, I could hardly wait to come home.

How was it that homesickness could be more painful than a bullet wound?

Brave young American men climbed the rugged slopes of Korean mountains and fought in homesickness and desperate weariness for the sake of a people strange to them and for reasons they scarcely understood, even when they yielded up their lives. With such noble impulse and final sacrifice, let the past be forgot, except for what it teaches for the future.

I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that's odd, isn't it, because I was home, all the time. What on earth are we to make of that?

Homesickness springs from the isolation of the soul from its surroundings.

Some say that over time homesickness loses its specific content, that it starts to smolder and only then becomes all-consuming, because it's no longer focused on a concrete home.

Cement is as impossible to escape as the dust of the earth, you can't tell where it comes from because it's already there. And apart from hunger, the only thing in our minds that's as quick as cement is homesickness. It steals from you the same way cement does, and you can drown in it as well.

When you leave your country, it's hard to leave your family over there. My whole family is in Venezuela.

If it is possible to be homesick for the world, even places one has never been and knows one will never see, this book is the child of such homesickness.

The Germans are sentimental. Their word Heimweh . The English say homesick; the same in plain Swedish. Hemsjuk . Leave it to the Germans to pull out, like some endless elastic belt of horrible sweetness, all that molasses woe.

As to this region here, I know the country and the people too well and love them too much to be positively leaving them for good. I shall try to rent a room where I can put my things, and shall be safe then, in case I want to leave Antwerp for a time or if I get homesick for the country.

I don't like being away from home for a long period of time.

I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.

I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.

I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.

I really miss my family and my kids when I'm away from home.

In the afternoons, in the long pre-nights to Lima's winter, Herr Oswald Teller, from his mildewy room, flooded the house with music and homesickness and geniality. Liquefied Mozart poured down the staircase and formed puddles in the hollows like a torrent of rain that had soaked through the roof.

I was already feeling a kind of homesickness for a present I was still living

Because of some strange predictive homesickness that festered alongside a depression that told her, ultimately, she didn't deserve to be happy.

Shy and arrogant and anxious to be loved. Homesick and pleased to be away from home at last." Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen".