Neel Mukherjee Quotes

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

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

I wish I had never left England

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.

'Hiraeth' means homesickness to a home to which you cannot return: the grief of the lost places of your past. I fell in love with the word and instantly connected to it. It reminded me of the days when I had left my home in Gwalior, and I had that strange pull in my stomach, and now I can so relate to this word.

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

I used to suffer from a lot of regret while touring. Regret at having to leave certain places, people and situations, or just a beautiful day.

There has not been one day since I left that I have not thought about Haiti.

I miss West Virginia very much.

I miss my family every single day.

I get really homesick inside.

All the best songs have an element of sadness.

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall still be my home, And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.

Longing alone is singer to the lute.

That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.

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

I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no avail. Some say that over time homesickness loses its specific content, that it starts to smolder and only then becomes all-consuming, because it’s no longer focused on a concrete home. I am one of the people who say that.

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

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again.

I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.

When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.

My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.