The 70 best quotes about Homesickness

A selection of famous quotes that talk about missing someone we have lost.

Missing someone is a feeling we have all felt at one time or another. Whether it's because of distance or because of a death, we may feel that we miss that person we once held close.

This feeling can be a cause for sadness and even cause certain psychological disorders.

Great Quotes on Homesickness

Sometimes it can be beneficial to reflect on this feeling in order to reconnect with our optimistic thinking.

Without further ado, let's get to know the best phrases of longing that have left us great writers, thinkers and poets of all times.thinkers and poets of all times.

1. Do not succumb to homesickness. Go out into the street. Go to a neighboring city, to a foreign country..., but do not travel to the past that hurts. (Pablo Picasso)

An optimistic phrase of the great artist from Malaga.

2. Between you and me (mengana mía) there was a Berlin wall made of deserted hours of fleeting yearnings. (Mario Benedetti)

An unforgettable verse by the Uruguayan poet.

3. Longing suffocated under the habit. (Gustave Flaubert)

Poetic reflection of the author of Madame Bovary.

4. The present does not exist, it is a point between illusion and longing. (Lorenzo Villalonga)

A phrase of longing for deep reflection.

5. No matter how well made the stitches are, it is difficult to live when our viscera have been replaced by the longing for a person; it seems that the latter occupies more space than the former, we feel it continuously, and what an ambiguity to be forced to think of a part of one's own body! (Marcel Proust)

A way of living mourning and missing.

6. I suddenly found myself at the culmination of the bliss of love and consequently at the peak of my life, of my longings and aspirations. (Hermann Hesse)

The best moment of this philosopher's life.

7. (Hermann Hesse) Too long I wavered in longing, with my eyes fixed on the distance, too long I remained in solitude, so that I no longer know how to be silent. (Nietzsche)

A plea to live life with intensity.

8. Longing is the road before becoming a statue of salt. (Enrique Múgica)

If one does not remedy it, it can be the road to perdition.

9. A goose is forbidden any hint of longing. A goose has things to do, demands a lot of himself, and looks down on his own idleness. (Robert Walser)

A funny phrase that may have a hidden meaning.

10. I'm going to miss you every moment, every moment of the day, because you've become the sun that lights up my life. (Megan Maxwell)

Longing even before losing.

11. You have had to accept hardships. That is hardening, it builds character. (Libba Bray)

An iron personality is based on austerity and self-improvement.

12. I realize now that it was not she who left me. It was I who did not follow her. I chose and I stayed. Condemned, turned into a lighthouse, as in stories that don't end well. Learning that the measure of affection is longing. Learning to know how to be. Me. With me. Being. (Alejandro Palomas)

Beautiful verse about a farewell.

13. I move the memory around the apartment from one side to the other, as if it were a piece of furniture or a painting that I don't know where to hang. (Nathan Filer)

Metaphor for understanding how memories can anchor us to the past.

14. Who knows how she had become covered with thin, almost imperceptible veils that gradually isolated her from reality. It had been mummifying. (José Agustín)

Food for thought.

15. Perhaps he and I trusted too much in the permanence of old complicities worn out little by little by distance and neglect. (Antonio Muñoz Molina)

The wear and tear of living together can lead to dead-end situations.

16. It is very rare to feel that you long for something you are not even sure you know. (David Foster Wallace)

Sometimes this feeling comes over us after having lived a very intense experience.

17. We will never know if every past time was truly better, or so it seems to us because it is time read, not lived; time deciphered in the pages of authors who have demystified and re-mythologized it for us. (Abilio Estévez)

A psychological paradox difficult to explain.

18. Before I was someone who knew many things. Now nobody asks me for my opinion or advice. I miss it. I used to be curious, independent and confident. I miss being sure of things. There is no peace in not being sure of everything, all the time. I miss doing everything with ease. I miss not being part of what's important. I miss feeling needed. I miss my life and my family. I loved my life and my family. (Lisa Genova)

As the years go by, we may have these mixed feelings.

19. Listen to me. If you hear the past talking to you, feel it tugging at your back and running its fingers down your spine, the best thing you can do, the only thing, is run. (Lauren Oliver)

Forward and until you feel alive again.

20. A place I wasn't sure I loved. A place that no longer existed, because what she was beginning to long for now that she was there was the Elizondo of her childhood. (Dolores Redondo)

One of those phrases of longing that bring back a certain nostalgia.

21. Old times should never be missed. He who longs for the old days is a longing old man. (Daniel Glattauer)

We cannot live without looking to the future.

22. It is not good to take formulas out of their freezing, to turn secrets into words, to translate memories into feelings, capable of killing even such good and severe things as love and hate. (Heinrich Boll)

Reflection on emotions and what we do with them.

23. They are what I was. They are what I lost, they are all I want to see. (Paula Hawkins)

Missing is a very human thing.

24. The dead belong to the living who most obsessively claim them. (James Ellroy)

When someone leaves us, it seems to be when we need them the most.

25. It is healthy to unclog the pipes of memory and finish making peace with everything that was left behind. (María Dueñas)

A kind of emotional catharsis, very necessary.

26. It is necessary to leave in peace the things of the past. (Fred Vargas)

It is better not to pay much attention to them.

27. When you feel homesick, raise your eyes to the sky. (Donna Tartt)

Moving forward is an obligation.

28. I had broken his heart to install in him the poison of longing. (Guillaume Musso)

This is how this French writer expressed himself.

29. Some details were erased, but the longing persisted. (Gustave Flaubert)

Memory can forget concrete things, but hardly emotions.

How he longed for the ineffable feelings of love that he tried to imagine through books at that time! (Gustave Flaubert)

Another longing phrase of the French writer.

31. I have no home. So why should I be homesick? (Carson McCullers)

A peculiar view of home.

32. Because we can also long for our mistakes. (Ernesto Sábato)

To err is so human that it even deserves remembrance and praise.

33. Time had passed with sufficient force to reduce his nervous passion of the time to the rank of curious anecdotes, which age badly and begin to seem artificial, as if they depended on an already obsolete technology of memory that revealed that the drama was staged on a papier-mâché stage. (Juan Villoro)

Reflection by the Mexican journalist and writer.

34. Anything that reminds me of you makes me so sad that I can't stand it. (Orhan Pamuk)

After a breakup we can feel this deep regret.

35. I always realize things late: the past is very good to me, not the present. The present I cannot understand. (Nick Hornby)

In retrospect, everything is understandable and coherent.

36. (...) But there is no way to elude time, the sea of time, the sea of remembering and forgetting, the years of hopes, lost and unrecoverable, of this land that was almost allowed to claim its best destiny, only to have it snatched away by the same old evil ones, and to be dragged and kidnapped into the future in which we must live now and forever. (Thomas Pynchon)

Famous quote about longing by this American writer.

37. It is the tragedy of love, you can never love something you have more than something you long for. (Jonathan Safran Foer)

That's what love is, even if it is painful.

38. He who suffers has memory. (Cicero)

(Cicero) Past mistakes can stay with us for a long time.

39. Saudade... A Portuguese word that has no literal translation; it means a deep longing for something or someone that is no longer there and may never return. A kind of ultra-moving hyper nostalgia. The love that lingers when someone is gone. (Mhairi McFarlane)

You can learn more about the concept of saudade in this post.

40. Along the way I left a leg, a lung and a piece of liver. But I have to say, right at this moment, I was happy with cancer. I remember it as one of the best times of my life. (Albert Espinosa)

The life of this Catalan writer was marked by Cancer and self-improvement.

41. In the last months of his life, Mr. Baron was really nothing more than a shadow of his former self, as they say, and before that shadow, which took on more and more spectral features, everyone moved further and further away. And I myself, of course, no longer had the same relationship with Paul's shadow as I had with the Paul of before. (Thomas Bernhard)

To free interpretation.

42. I remember with love the boy or girl I was, knowing that I did the best I could with the knowledge I had at the time. (Louise L. Hay)

A positive look at the adventures of another time.

43. My childhood are memories of a courtyard in Seville, and a clear orchard where the lemon tree ripens; my youth, twenty years in the land of Castile; my history, some cases that I do not want to remember. (Antonio Machado)

The memories of childhood are some of those that produce the most nostalgia.

44. The day or the night when oblivion explodes, jumps in pieces or crepitates, the atrocious memories and those of wonder will break the bars of fire and will finally drag the truth through the world, and that truth will be that there is no oblivion. (Mario Benedetti)

Everything that happens leaves a trace, even if it is in our mind.

45. Tormented by our memories, we dedicate ourselves to polishing our memory. (Boris Cyrulnik)

Reviewing our memories offers us the possibility of constructing a self-concept with which we feel comfortable.

46. I'm not lonely but I like to be alone, I like to love you from afar, I like to miss you sometimes. (Macaco)

Longing can be a stimulating feeling.

47. What happens in the past comes back to life in memory. (John Dewey)

To what extent does what we experience in remembrance belong to the past and not to the present?

48. Nothing can last so long; there is no memory, no matter how intense it may be, that does not fade away. (Juan Rulfo)

Like all things, memories fade, since nothing is eternal.

49. Memories do not populate our solitude, as is often said; on the contrary, they make it deeper. (Gustave Flaubert)

We can become more isolated if we base our life on reminiscing.

50. Let us lose nothing of the past. It is only with the past that the future is formed. (Anatole France)

To forget is also to lose valuable knowledge.

51. The past does not want to be changed. (Stephen King)

What has happened tends to remain in our consciousness.

52. Look back and laugh at past dangers. (Walter Scott)

Seen in perspective, certain past risks make us feel better.

53. The past is a lake for only one swimmer: memory. (Ali Ahmad Said Esber)

Only through memory can we experience the past.

54. Certain memories are like common friends, they know how to make reconciliations. (Marcel Proust)

We can find truths about ourselves in memories.

55. The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting next to them and know that you can never have them. (Gabriel García Márquez)

A form of loneliness that does not understand distances.

56. Cherish all your memories, you can't relive them. (Bob Dylan)

This is one more reason why memories matter.

57. There is no nostalgia worse than longing for something that never ever happened. (Joaquin Sabina)

A form of self-deception.

58. It is curious how we cling to the past, while we look forward to our future. (Ally Condie)

A paradox that keeps us stuck.

59. Ah, the good old days! When we were so unhappy. (Alexandre Dumas)

The passage of time leads us to idealize the past.

You can't have a better future if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. (Charles Kettering)

A very simple idea not to dwell on the past.

61. Things are not the way they used to be, and probably never were. (Will Rogers)

One of the phrases of longing that best sums up this state of consciousness.

62. Nothing is so sweet as one's homeland and one's parents, even if one has in a strange and distant land the most opulent mansion. (Homer)

The familiar is linked to our identity.

63. I love to remember: but nostalgia gnaws at my body. (Tony Duvert)

This feeling can make memory a double-edged sword.

64. Do not let the past be the past, for you will jeopardize your future. (Winston Churchill)

With the past we must build new things.

65. We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and the impulse for the strange. In most cases, we are nostalgic for places we have never known. (Carson McCullers)

A balance between the desire to know and the desire to inhabit the known.

66. Maybe you had to leave to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to discover how dear your starting point was. (Jodi Picoult)

Absence is what often makes us appreciate what we had.

67. We long for places, we remember places; it is the sounds, smells and sights of places that haunt us and against which we often measure our present. (Alan Gussow)

About the way in which these memories make us value the present moment.

68. Russia is the only country in the world for which you can feel nostalgia while you are still in it. (John Updike)

A humorous reflection on the size of this enormous country.

69. I come to my lonely walk in the woods while homesickness comes home. (Henry David Thoreau)

Thoreau famously lived for a long time in a log house in the woods, and so he found this setting familiar.

70. I have been homesick for countries I have never been to, and longed to be where I could not be. (John Cheever)

The feeling of longing can even arise through fantasizing about places we have never set foot in.