Jose Rizal Quotes

If I knew I could never come back to Ireland, to England, I think I'd fall off the tree.

Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

Homeland is something one becomes aware of only through its loss.

I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.

Everyone comes back. It makes no difference how far we wander, we always have our country, our land, in our souls and our minds.

I have lived too long in foreign parts

It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.

Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.

What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.

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

I don't believe I could live in Iran again. A tree, once uprooted from the earth, is very difficult to plant again.

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

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.

I can't really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while.

It's strange coming back to Northern Ireland, but it feels like a home away from home.

Homesickness is universal. But Neapolitan homesickness goes back further than the accidents of domicile. It is nostalgia for love and loss themselves, a soul-sickness caused by the very idea of leaving.

I sing 'Beirut' for what the city is for me, but I am also singing as an exile.

What any immigrant is after is a taste of home.

On the flight over to the Gulf of Mexico, I wondered about how they say you can never go home again, but maybe an equally expensive reality is how many people, regardless of how many years or miles they put between themselves and where they were born, are never truly able to leave home.

Every day, I wish there was a moment when I could go back to my house and my land.

I am very happy with my life, but seven or eight months a year, I am away from home. I want to go home - that's the truth.

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

I long for home, long for the sight of home.