47 Quotes About Homesick

Cricket’s voice broke through Thomas’s memory. He was reading a letter, most likely from his mother. He was trying hard to hide it, but he was tearing up. “Captain I don’t want to be here,” was all he could choke out. Thomas reached over and gave Cricket’s shoulder a tight squeeze.

Gets silly after a while, don't it, hating something because you're mad at something else, you think? (Sylvanus) ———It's like we went into hibernation after we moved to Hampden. Never did wake up to the place. Think I always blamed it for our having to move there — silly as that sounds. (Addie)

He breathed in. He breathed out.He forgot how to exhale when he wasn't at home.

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.

It didn't help, reminding herself that if she were back in Blackpool she'd spend the afternoon aching to be in London. It just made her feel that she'd never be happy anywhere.

I was reminded that only in unfamiliar bedrooms do we perceive with such clarity the true nature of our existence---true because astray---only away from our own bedroom, from the room that I longed for ever moment of my trip---how I longed to be there, to slip into it---in the persistently unyielding space of a deserted place that just won't be appropriated.

His boredom was like a nostalgia for the whole world. He was homesick for everywhere but here.

Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. "I'm coming back some day," they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore.

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