Sophie Dahl Quotes

I feel like I was born in the wrong time.

I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

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.

I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.

I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s.

Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?

It's so easy to get caught up in this weird life. This isn't normal and I'm not singing for people that live my life. I'm singing to the life I used to have. The life I want to have again.

Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?

What I want back is what I was.

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.

Nostalgia is eternal for Americans. We are often displaced from our origins and carry anxious memories of that lost past. We fear losing our bearings.

I wish I had never left England

South Bend is a nice town, but you know that phrase - 'I was homesick even when I was home.'

I'm not even sure that I want to go back... The Zimbabwe that I really loved, the Zimbabwe that I grew up in, just isn't there anymore, and I'm not sure about the country that has replaced it.

I go to many different places many times, but I miss my house constantly.

Very often, as I wander through life, I'll get that old feeling that I've come back from the future, and I'm living in the past. And it's a really horrible feeling.

I wished I could go back to Atletico; I'm not going to lie.

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

There is always something to miss, no matter where you are.

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

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.

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.

I get homesick.

And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.