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Quotes About Return

Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking up from a long coma.
~ Bill Bryson
I had recently read that 3.7 million Americans, according to a Gallup poll, believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, so it was clear that my people needed me. --On his move back to America after living in England for twenty years.
~ Bill Bryson
A Memory It came back to me not in the way a thing might be returned to its rightful owner but like dance music traveling in the dark from one end of a lake to the other.
~ Billy Collins
Nicholas, your people have come home.
~ Blaine Lee Pardoe
I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home.
~ Bob Dylan
You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babe But you're back were you belong
~ Bob Dylan
You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.
~ Bob Dylan
I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be so I'm on my way home.
~ Bob Dylan
How long can I listen to the lies of prejudice? How long can I stay drunk on fear out in the wilderness? Can I cast it aside, all this loyalty and this pride? Will I ever learn that there'll be no peace, that the war won't cease, until He returns?
~ Bob Dylan
Last on the bill, not least ladies and gentlemen. Here he is, back from the grave, back straight from the grave
~ Bob Dylan
She said "where you been?" I said "no place special" She said "you look different" I said "well, I guess" She said "you been gone" I said "that's only natural" She said "you gonna stay?" I said "if you want me to, yes
~ Bob Dylan
Ecco che cos'era la vita, che cos'era l'esperienza, che cosa inseguivano coloro che andavano in cerca di avventure, ecco a che cosa mirava l'arte: ritornare a casa propria, ai propri affetti, riprendere la vita
~ Boris Pasternak
I don't know the reason, but the reminder of what life is comes so timely at the moment of taking leave of it and on the threshold of its return.
~ Boris Pasternak
but ever since she returned to my life...life doesn't make complete sense. But it definitely makes more sense than it used to.
~ Brad Meltzer
I have to be absent for a while. Do not wait for me.—D.
~ Bram Stoker
Other countries have stories of kings who will return at times of great need. Only in England is it part of the constitution.
~ Susanna Clarke
Other countries," he said, "have stories of kings who will return at times of great need. Only in England is it part of the constitution.
~ Susanna Clarke
Vsako srce nosi v svojem najskrivnejšem koti?ku drobtinico vednosti- spominja se kraja, trenutka v katerem je bilo sre?no, in po tistem kraju se mu toži, tja se želi vrniti.
~ Susanna Tamaro
Existe algo más terrible que un retorno que no logra llevarse a cabo?
~ Susanna Tamaro
I ricordi tristi sonnecchiano per tanto tempo in una delle innumerevoli caverne del ricordo, stanno li anche per anni. Per decenni, per tutta una vita. Poi, un bel giorno, tornano in superficie, il dolore che li aveva accompagnati è di nuovo presente, intenso e pungente come lo era quel giorno di tanti anni fa.
~ Susanna Tamaro
Love returns any way it can
~ Sybil Rosen
I'm returning to England because the reason I stayed away no longer exists, and a reason to return has unexpectedly presented itself.
~ Sylvia Day
There are no return trips on this line," the woman said softly. "Once you get to the ninth kingdom, there is no going back. It is the kingdom of negation, of the frozen will. It has many names.
~ Sylvia Plath
Pero ¿qué es el noveno reino?», le pregunta a una mujer de ojos azules y piel arrugada. «Es el reino de la negación, de la voluntad congelada -responde-. No hay retorno posible.»
~ Sylvia Plath