Jacques Derrida Quotes

I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.

I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.

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

If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

One returns to the place one came from.

So many of my films involve houses or homes that have been abandoned. People trying to get back home. That's an idea that I keep dealing with.

You can never blame somebody for wanting to go home.

I miss Boston so much and want to get back there someday.

our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.

This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime

My library is an archive of longings.

Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on a train.

Where are we really going? Always home.

Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.

Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.

In my heart, I'm always in my rail-hosen.

People dreamed. People left. And they all came back.

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.

Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

I weaned myself on the nostalgia equivalent of methadone (less addictive, less obvious, less likely to make you crazy): missing what I had never had.

Get back to where you once belonged.

I have an intense desire to return to the womb. Anybody's.

All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River