A Quote by Judith Thurman

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

Judith Thurman

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Judith Thurman
American - Writer
Born: October 28, 1946

It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.

Don DeLillo

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Carson McCullers

I'm homesick. But I cannot go back to Syria. I lost everything. And I'm against the Syrian regime, so there is no way to go back. I'm really homesick.

Osama Alomar

Don't think I am not homesick for America. I say 'homesick' advisedly because I am a man with two homes - America, which gave me hospitality for many happy years, and where my daughter was born; and my native England.

Leslie Howard

You're not built for riding, either," Horace added. "I'd say more saddle sore than homesick." Svenal sighed ruefully, shifting his buttocks for the twentieth time to find a more comfortable spot. "It's true," he said. "I've been discovering parts of my backside I never knew existed.

John Flanagan

There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia.

Joan Didion

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

John Cheever

One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.

Henry Ward Beecher

...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.

Joseph Mitchell

Name me no names for my disease, With uninforming breath; I tell you I am none of these, But homesick unto death —Homesick for hills that I had known, For brooks that I had crossed, Before I met this flesh and bone And followed and was lost… .And though they break my heart at last, Yet name no name of ills. Say only, “Here is where he passed, Seeking again those hills.