Quotes About Heimat

The Nazis thus offered a modern salvation worldview that defined evil lucidly and consistently: significantly, it did this by blending science, morality, and identity, that is, by mixing modern race theories, moral religious sentiments associated with a tradition of Christianity, and key elements of Heimat and German national identity.

Frisch weht der Wind Der Heimat zu Mein Irisch Kind, Wo weilest du?

If the French have loaded nostalgia with too much clarity, if they have deprived it of a certain intimate and dangerous prestige; Sehnsucht, on the other hand, exhausts what is insoluble in the conflicts of the German soul, torn between the Heimat and the Infinite.

Time, space, neither life nor death is the answer. And of man seeking good, doing evil. In meiner Heimat where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard. Ezra Pound, from "Canto CXV" (The Cantos of Ezra Pound)

Heimweh, wonach? Wenn ich "Heimweh" sage, sag ich "Traum" Denn die alte Heimat gibt es kaum. Wenn ich Heimweh sage, mein ich viel: Was uns lange drückte im Exil. Fremde sind wir nun im Heimatort. Nur das "Weh", es bleibt. Das "Heim" ist fort.