Stephen King Quotes

I get homesick.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement.

I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness.

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.

L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.

I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.

I am so homesick every day of the week.

Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.

For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.

[T]hese last few days where I've moped around damn near depressed for real, because of people who do not exist. Not really. I can buy them Christmas presents, but there is no way to send them. Sometimes I feel like I should be able to walk into the next room and there they will be, but they won't. These people do not exisit as flesh and blood, but there are different kinds of reality, and there are days when imagination feels very, very real.

I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.

You're always homesick.

until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.

If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.

I remember being this little girl missing her daddy and living so far away in France and from anything that was familiar to me. I felt so different and so isolated. When you're removed from everything that's familiar, you realize who you are.

Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. It's a sentiment.

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.

I'm homesick all the time. I miss my animals. I miss my family. I miss my friends.

You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.

At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.

All I can say is sometimes home gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can't leave you, and there's always that longing.