Quotes of Homesickness - somelinesforyou

“ A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words. ”

- Robert Frost

“ The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home. ”

- Edgar Watson Howe

“ I don't like nostalgia — unless it's mine. ”

- Lou Reed

“ Homesickness is nothing Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. ”

- John Cheever

“ Things ain't what they used to be and never were. ”

- Will Rogers

“ Nostalgia is not what it used to be (La nostalgie n'est plus ce qu'elle etait). ”

- Simone Signoret

“ The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to. ”

- Carrie Underwood

“ 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

“ Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing… But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return. ”

- Agatha Christie

“ Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard
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