90 Quotes About Homesickness

A postcard and I'm pining for New England. . .

Who would dare admit a longing for a White nation so full of hate that it drove its citizens of color to madness, to death or to exile? How to confess even to one's ownself, that our eyes, historically customed to granite buildings, wide paved avenues, chromed cars, and brown, black, beige, pink, and white-skinned people, often ached for those familiar sights?

There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap.

Never complete. Never whole.White skin and an African soul.

I unlocked the door of my apartment, where the only movement, while I was gone, had been the light moving across the walls from the morning to evening and a scuttling roach or two, and the air inside smelled of loneliness. The ache got eased a little the next day, after I'd picked up my dog from my sister, gotten sucked back into the slipstream of the city. But only a little. And soon it spread, until the word home could make me cry. I wanted one.

It is strange and cold. I can feel it through the box" said Miss Flower and she cried, "No one will understand us or know what we want. Oh no one will understand us again!"But Miss Happiness was more hopeful and more brave. "I think they will,"she said."How will they?""Because there will be some little girl who is clever and kind.""Will there be?" said Miss Flower longingly."Yes.""Why will there be?""Because there always has been," said Miss Happiness.

It struck her that he might have told no one, not even his brothers, how he felt, and she thought how lonely that might have been for him.

let me belong again to that faraway place I left so long ago, from which I am alienated, and which has forgotten me, in which I am an alien now even though it was the place where I began, let me belong again, walk those streets knowing they are mine, knowing that my story is a part of those streets, even though it isn't, it hasn't been for most of a lifetime, let it be so, let it be so

He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.