Quotes About Homesick

I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.

I think I'll always be homesick. Even though Orlando is amazing and the sun's always out, I'll always miss Birmingham. I don't know what it is.

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

Short, narrow streets run far and wide / as if they were homesick.

He got up and stalked out of the house, slamming the screen door. My mother explained. He has a gentle heart, she said. It is simply that he is homesick and such a large man.

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.

I take a deep breath, at home and homesick all at the same time.

Opening the window, I sit at Taryn's desk and sip nettle tea, drinking in the sharp salt scent of the sea and the wild honeysuckle and the distant breeze through the trees. I take a deep breath, at home and homesick all at the same time.

Well, that explains the dreamy accent. And why transvestites would make him feel homesick. —SINGLE-MINDED

Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.

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.

I am homesick and I am timesick . . . I miss all that no longer is, Lil says.

The spectacle of the constabulary in the terminal with automatic weapons slung on their shoulders also made me homesick, confirming I was again in a country with its malnourished neck under a dictator's loafer.

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

I have experienced all kinds of foolish melancholy—I've been homesick for countries I've never seen, and longed to be what I couldn't be—but all these moods were trivial compared to my premonition of death.

Murray says it is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.

Everything was lost, I had fallen off the map: the disorientation of being in the wrong apartment, with the wrong family, was wearing me down, so I felt groggy and punch-drunk, weepy almost, like an interrogated prisoner prevented from sleeping for days. Over and over, I kept thinking I've got to go home and then, for the millionth time, I can't.

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!

The hardest thing about moving to California from Connecticut was just missing my family. If I went back, it would be just because I was homesick.

I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what or where home was.

No, she felt homesick, not for a place, but for a time. Maybe it wasn't homesickness at all. Maybe it was timesickness. She just missed those days when she was younger - seven, six, five, four years old - when she didn't know so much about the world. She missed, most of all, her mother.

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

I'm homesick, not for America, but for Negroes.