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  • When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.

    Nostalgia   Used   Lost  
    "Have a heart". Interview With Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2005.
  • On his homesickness during the Barcelona Olympics -I miss America. I miss crime and murder. I miss Philadelphia. There hasn't been a brutal stabbing or anything here the last 24 hours. I've missed it.

  • Philosophy is really homesickness.

    George MacDonald (1996). “A Dish of Orts”
  • Homesickness for the gutter.

  • But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.

    Olive Ann Burns (2007). “Cold Sassy Tree”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.

    Stars   Soul   World  
  • You 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.

    Dream   Loneliness   Home  
  • Nothing is more often misdiagnosed than our homesickness for Heaven. We think that what we want is sex, drugs, alcohol, a new job, a raise, a doctorate, a spouse, a large-screen television, a new car, a cabin in the woods, a condo in Hawaii. What we really want is the person we were made for, Jesus, and the place we were made for, Heaven. Nothing less can satisfy us.

    Jesus   Jobs   Sex  
    Randy Alcorn (2011). “Heaven”, p.160, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
  • Her blog was doing well, with thousands of unique visitors each month, and she was earning good speaking fees, and she had a fellowship at Princeton and a relationship with Blaine - "You are the absolute love of my life," he'd written in her last birthday card - and yet there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness.

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013). “Americanah”, p.12, Anchor
  • Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been so widely credentialed, and its young members so fetishize the work beloved by their teachers that their work ceases to talk about anything else. Instead of enlarging our view of being human, it contains safe rehashing of received ideas about received ideas. This is a melancholy romance with artistic ruins, homesickness for a bygone era. This yearning may be earnest, but it stunts their work, and by turn the broader culture.

    Teacher   Art   School  
  • It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement

    Jacques Derrida (1998). “Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression”, p.100, University of Chicago Press
  • When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

    Music   Piano   People  
  • [When thinking about the new relativity and quantum theories] I have felt a homesickness for the paths of physical science where there are ore or less discernible handrails to keep us from the worst morasses of foolishness.

    Science   Thinking   Path  
  • Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don't know how awful it is unti you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die.

    Want   Awful   Stomach  
  • homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

    Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • ...there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness.

    Morning   Soul   Desire  
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013). “Americanah”, p.12, Anchor
  • One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.

    Heaven   Homesick   Inns  
  • In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of being at once bound and free. The garden breeds a longing for the wild; the wild a homesickness for the garden.

    Garden   Shadow   Longing  
    Dorothy Miller Richardson (1925). “The Trap”
  • Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees in the street look not just indifferent but ugly... perhaps even malignant. Homesickness is a real sickness--the ache of the uprooted plant.

    Beautiful   Real   Mind  
    Stephen King (1994). “Different Seasons”, Signet Book
  • Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city.

    Cities   Crowds   Aliens  
    Christos Tsiolkas (2014). “Barracuda”, p.24, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • I am tired of loving a foreign muse.

    1927 'American Names'.
  • Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like where I came from. I was used to dry clarity and sharpness in the air. I was used to horizons that either lifted into jagged ranges or rimmed the geometrical circle of the flat world. I was used to seeing a long way. I was used to earth colors--tan, rusty red, toned white--and the endless green of Iowa offended me. I was used to a sun that came up over mountains and went down behind other mountains. I missed the color and smell of sagebrush, and the sight of bare ground.

    Teacher   Fall   Sight  
  • You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

    Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”
  • Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no avail. 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. I am one of the people who say that.

    Home   Sleep   Long  
  • The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that home, so you are assuaging the homesickness.

    Home   Writing   Trying  
  • Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a sure thing than a hunch. Faith is waiting.

    Frederick Buechner (1992). “The Clown in the Belfry: Writings on Faith and Fiction”, Harpercollins
  • The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was the same view. Costis passed it, and then went back up the stairs to look again. There were only the roofs of the lower part of the palace and the town and the city walls. Beyond those were the hills on the far side of the Tustis Valley and the faded blue sky above them. It wasn't what the king saw that was important, it was what he couldn't see when he sat at the window with his face turned toward Eddis.

    Summer   Kings   Wall  
  • We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

    Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.408, Library of America
  • Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.

    Adventure   Men   Despair  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (2006). “Nietzsche: 'On the Genealogy of Morality' and Other Writings Student Edition”, p.57, Cambridge University Press
  • Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one.

    Strong   Home   Names  
    Charles Dickens, John Forster (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens ...: Martin Chugglewit”, p.160
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