Michael Franti Quotes

I hate the feeling when I'm overseas, away from Australia, that I'm trapped, blocked by an ocean from getting to the people I love. That gives me anxiety.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

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

There's certainly a loss of connection with folks on the ground who I care for and love and I want to spend time with.

I've been away from my family even when I was in France.

I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone.

Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms keep us lonely, no one hears what's in my head. [...] It's March, even the birds don't know what to do with themselves.

You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?" "It's a distance that can't be measured." "Like the distance that separates one person's heart from another's.

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.

No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.

I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.

I squeeze my eyes shut and try to reach for him across the hundreds and hundreds of miles, to send my thoughts into his mind, to let him know he is not alone. But he is. And I can't help him.

It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger.

When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind. But when she's merely across the city, this is an absence that eats you to the bone.

The entire time I was in Portland, which was the five years, I had absolutely no contact with any of my family.

Austin is such a free and creative place, but I can't enjoy it as much because everyone I love is back in L.A.

The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family.

Whenever you're out of town, no matter modern communications, you feel a little bit out of touch.

My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home.

As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

Everything else outside me seems far, far away.

I really miss a lot of my friends out there.